'Aqqaba

'Aqqaba
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	عقّابة
• Also spelled	al-Aqaba (official) Akkaba (unofficial)
• Hebrew	עקבה
'Aqqaba Location of 'Aqqaba within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°21′02.87″N 35°20′59.06″E / 32.3507972°N 35.3497389°ECoordinates: 32°21′02.87″N 35°20′59.06″E / 32.3507972°N 35.3497389°E
Governorate	Tubas
Government
• Type	Municipality
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	6,548

'Aqqaba (Arabic: عقّابة‎‎; Hebrew: עקבה‎) is a Palestinian town located on a slope in the Jordan Valley in the northern West Bank, 15 kilometers northeast of Jenin in the Tubas Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 6,598 inhabitants in the 2007 census.^[1]

'Aqqaba is made up of three main families: Abu Arra, Abu Ghannam and al-Masri. During clear weather, Haifa could be seen from the west on the Mediterranean Sea as well as the summit of Jabal ash-Sheikh in Lebanon, while from the east the mountains of Ajloun in Jordan are clearly seen day and night. 'Aqqaba is the highest point in the Tubas Governorate. 'Aqqaba lies five kilometers east the Arab American University.

It has been under Israeli occupation since 1967.

References

1. 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.106.

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. 227)
• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
• Guérin, Victor (1874). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 354)
• 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.
• 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.
• Zertal, Adam (2007). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. 2. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004163697. (pp. 149-150)

External links

• Welcome To 'Aqqaba
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 12: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Aqqaba Village Profile, The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. February, 2006
• Aqqaba (Fact Sheet), The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. February, 2006