Kafr Abbush

Kafr 'Abbush
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	كفر عبّوش
Kafr 'Abbush Location of Kafr 'Abbush within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°13′19.32″N 35°05′03.43″E / 32.2220333°N 35.0842861°E / 32.2220333; 35.0842861Coordinates: 32°13′19.32″N 35°05′03.43″E / 32.2220333°N 35.0842861°E / 32.2220333; 35.0842861
Governorate	Tulkarm
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	1,488

Kafr 'Abbush (Arabic: كفر عبّوش‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northwestern West Bank. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Kfar Abbush had a population of 360 inhabitants, in 63 houses.^[1] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Kafr 'Abbush had a population of approximately 1,488 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.^[2] 24.8% of the population of Kafr 'Abbush were refugees in 1997.^[3] The healthcare facilities for Kafr 'Abbush are based in Kafr 'Abbush, where the facilities are designated as MOH level 2.^[4]

Footnotes

Bibliography

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

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