Nuba, Hebron

Nuba
Other transcription(s)
– Arabic	نوبا
Nuba Location of Nuba within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 31°36′25.96″N 35°02′12.24″E / 31.6072111°N 35.0367333°E / 31.6072111; 35.0367333Coordinates: 31°36′25.96″N 35°02′12.24″E / 31.6072111°N 35.0367333°E / 31.6072111; 35.0367333
Governorate	Hebron
Government
– Type	Municipality
Population (2007)
– Jurisdiction	4,336

Nuba (Arabic: نوبا‎) is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-west of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 4,336 in 2007.^[1]

The village is mentioned in a late 14th century document of the Mamluk Sultanate who ruled Palestine from Cairo where three villagers are named as "ar'ru'asā ["the leaders"] in the village of Nūbā".^[2]

Footnotes

1. ^ 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.118.
2. ^ Singer, 1994, p. 36.

Bibliography

• Amy Singer (1994). Palestinian peasants and Ottoman officials: rural administration around sixteenth-century Jerusalem (3rd, illustrated ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521476798, 9780521476799. http://books.google.ca/books?id=mrsAw_mk1d0C&pg=PA36&dq=nuba+ottoman&hl=en&ei=bC_pTbvVB4jo-gaKx73SDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=nuba%20ottoman&f=false. 

External links

• Nuba Village (Fact Sheet)
• Nuba Village Profile
• Nuba Areal Photo
• The priorities and needs for development in Nuba village based on the community and local authorities’ assessment