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°ECoordinates: 32°13′19.32″N 35°05′03.43″E / 32.2220333°N 35.0842861°E
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

1. Mills, 1932, p.53
2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Tulkarm Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
3. Palestinian Population by Locality and Refugee Status Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
4. Health care Facilities Tulkarm Governorate

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