Farkha

Farkha
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	فرخة
Farkha, 2016
Farkha Location of Farkha within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°4′10.93″N 35°8′56.08″E / 32.0697028°N 35.1489111°ECoordinates: 32°4′10.93″N 35°8′56.08″E / 32.0697028°N 35.1489111°E
Palestine grid	164/164
Governorate	Salfit
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	1,336

Farkha (Arabic: فرخة‎‎) is a Palestinian village located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 30 kilometers south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 1,336 in 2007.^[1]

References

1. 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 112.

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
• Canaan, Tawfiq (1927). Mohammedan Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine. London: Luzac & Co. (p. 76 and n4. Cited in Sharon, 2004, p. 189)
• 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. 284)
• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
• Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3. (I p. 456)
• Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Vol 2: Samarie, pt. 2. (p. 159)
• 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. 134)
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). 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. 229)
• Sharon, Moshe (2004). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, D-F. 3. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-13197-3. (pp. 188 -200)

External links

• Welcome to Farkha
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Farkha village (fact sheet), ARIJ
• Farkha village profile, ARIJ
• Farkha aerial photo, ARIJ
• Israel incapable of telling truth about water it steals from Palestinians, by Amira Hass, Jun. 22, 2016, Haaretz