Mikhmas

Mukhmas
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	مُخماس
Mikhmas from the west
Mukhmas Location of Mukhmas within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 31°52′22.14″N 35°16′36.69″E / 31.8728167°N 35.2768583°ECoordinates: 31°52′22.14″N 35°16′36.69″E / 31.8728167°N 35.2768583°E
Governorate	Jerusalem
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	1,878

Mikhmas (Arabic: مُخماس‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate, located 8 kilometers Northeast of Jerusalem in the central West Bank. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Mikhmas had a population of 404 inhabitants, in 80 houses.^[1] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,878 in 2006.^[2]

Footnotes

1. Mills, 1932, p. 41
2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Jerusalem Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
• Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Simon (1896). [ARP] Archaeological Researches in Palestine 1873-1874, translated from the French by J. McFarlane. 2. London: Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 282)
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, Herbert H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 12, 149)
• Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4. (pp. 841–2)
• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
• Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 3. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. p. 63
• 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. 116)
• 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. 323)
• Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163. (p. 158)

External links

• Welcome to Mikhmas
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Mukhmas village (fact sheet)
• Mikhmas village profile
• Mikhmas aerial photo
• Locality Development Priorities and Needs in Mukhmas