Kafr Jammal

Kufr Jammal
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	كفر جمّال
Kufr Jammal
Kufr Jammal Location of Kufr Jammal within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°13′31.03″N 35°02′38.58″E / 32.2252861°N 35.0440500°E / 32.2252861; 35.0440500Coordinates: 32°13′31.03″N 35°02′38.58″E / 32.2252861°N 35.0440500°E / 32.2252861; 35.0440500
Governorate	Tulkarm
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	2,550
Name meaning	The village of camels

Kafr Jammal (Arabic: كفر جمّال‎‎), is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the western edge of the West Bank. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Kfar Jammal had a population of 498 inhabitants, in 109 houses.^[1] It is located about halfway between Qalqilyah and Tulkarm, and has a population of around 3,000. The village is mainly agricultural, and mostly raises olive and citrus crops. Kafr Jammal is at an altitude of 257 meters, and is bordered by Falamya in the west, Kafr Zibad in the east, Jayyous in the south, and Kafr Sur to the north.

Kafr Jammal enjoys good relations with neighboring territories, and heavy education and commercial exchange take place among them. The village is also notable for having a large diaspora outside the West Bank, mostly in Jordan, but also in Saudi Arabia and the United States. Kafr Jammal's population follow the Hanbali and Shafi'i fiqh (schools of Sunni Islam).

Village center
Orange crop
Local cemetery

Bibliography

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Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 165)
Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 772)
Hadawi, Sami (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. (p. 140)
Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 183)

External links

Welcome To Kafr Abbush
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons

Tulkarm Governorate

Cities	Tulkarm (Dhinnaba • Irtah • Shweikhah)

Municipalities	Anabta (Kafr Rumman) Attil Bal'a Baqa ash-Sharqiyya (Nazlat Abu Nar • an-Nazla al-Gharbiya • an-Nazla ash-Sharqiya • an-Nazla al-Wusta) Beit Lid Deir al-Ghusun 'Illar Kafr al-Labad Qaffin Zeita

Villages	Far'un Iktaba Izbat Shufa Al Jarushiya Kafr Abbush Kafr Jammal Kafr Sur Kafr Zibad Khureish Kur Nazlat 'Isa Raml Zeita Ramin al-Ras Saffarin Seida Sir Shufa

Refugee camps	Nur Shams Tulkarm camp

↑ Mills, 1932, p.55

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