Kabul, Israel
Kabul
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Local council (from 1974) | |
Hebrew transcription(s) | |
• ISO 259 | Kabbul |
• Also spelled | al-Kabul (official) |
Coordinates: 32°52′11″N 35°12′8″E / 32.86972°N 35.20222°E | |
Grid position | 170/252 PAL |
Country | Israel |
District | Northern |
Founded | 1200 BCE (Biblical Cabul) |
Government | |
• Head of Municipality | Nader Taha |
Area | |
• Total | 7,149 dunams (7.149 km2 or 2.760 sq mi) |
Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 14,628 |
• Density | 2,000/km2 (5,300/sq mi) |
Name meaning | (1) from Kabul, a personal name;[2] (2) (Phoenician) = "what does not please"[3] |
Kabul (
History
Classical era
Kabul is probably the Biblical Cabul mentioned in the Book of Joshua.[4]
Fragments of pottery from the Persian period have been found in Kabul,[5] as well as excavated burial chambers, used from the 1st to the 4th centuries.[6]
During the Second Temple there was a division of kohanim and the name of their head is Shecania. All divisions are described in Chronicles
In Roman times, Josephus calls the town "Chabolo" and camped there. He described it as a post from which incursions were made into the Galilee.[7]
Middle Ages
Its Crusader name was "Cabor".[15]
Remains of a building dating to the
Ottoman Empire
In 1517, Kabul was incorporated into the
In 1859, the population was estimated to be 400 people, with 30 feddans as tillage.[18]
The French explorer
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Kabul as a moderate sized village, with olives to the north and south.[18]
A population list from about 1887 showed that Kabul had about 415 inhabitants; all Muslims.[20]
British Mandate
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kabul had a population of 365 Muslims,[21] increasing at the time of the 1931 census to 457, still all Muslims, in 100 houses.[22]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 560 Muslims,[23] while the total land area was 10,399 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[24] Of this, 1,065 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 5,539 for cereals,[25] while 56 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[26]
Israel
The village was captured by Israel on 15 July 1948 during
Currently, there are five mosques in the town.[28] In 1974, it received the status of local council by the Israeli government.[29]
Demographics
In 1859 the population was estimated as being 400.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 110
- ^ Josephus, Antiquities 8.5.3. (8.141)
- ^ Tsafrir et al, TIR, 1994, pp. 102−103
- ^ Abu Raya, 2013, Kabul -final report
- ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 663
- ^ Robinson, 1856, p. 88.
- ^ a b Abu-‘Uqsa, 2007, Kabul
- ^ Zidan and Alexandre, 2012, Kabul
- ^ In 2010, an archaeological survey of Kabul was conducted by Omar Zidan on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), Excavators and Excavations Permit for Year 2010, Survey Permit # A-5956
- ^ Abu Raya, 2013, Kabul
- ^ a b Le Strange, 1890, p. 467
- ^ Al-Muqaddasi, 1886, p. 29
- ^ Le Strange, 1890, p. 39
- ^ Pringle, 1993, p. 283
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 193
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9.
- ^ a b c Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 271
- ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 422-423; as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 308
- ^ Schumacher, 1888, p. 176
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Acre, p. 37
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 101
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 80
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 130
- ^ Morris, 1993, p. 145
- ^ Welcome to Kabul Palestine Remembered.
- ^ a b Gutterman, Dov. Kabul (Israel) CRW Flags.
- ^ Palestinian Internally Displaced Persons inside Israel: Challenging the Solid Structures BADIL, p.5. Archived December 14, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
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- Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
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- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1856). Later Biblical Researches in Palestine and adjacent regions: A Journal of Travels in the year 1852. London: John Murray.
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External links
- Welcome To Kabul
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 5: IAA, Wikimedia commons