Khirbat al-Simia

Khirbat al-Simia
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	خربة السيميا
• Also spelled	As-Simiya (official)
Khirbat al-Simia Location of Khirbat al-Simia within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 31°25′18.06″N 35°02′01.30″E / 31.4216833°N 35.0336944°E / 31.4216833; 35.0336944Coordinates: 31°25′18.06″N 35°02′01.30″E / 31.4216833°N 35.0336944°E / 31.4216833; 35.0336944
Governorate	Hebron
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	1,705

Khirbat al-Simia (Arabic: خربة السيميا‎‎) is a Palestinian village located four kilometers north-west of As-Samu .The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,705 in mid-year 2006.^[1]

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, the village has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 267.^[2]

Footnotes

↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Hebron Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
↑ Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute. Retrieved 24 June 2016.

Bibliography

Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 313, 378-9)
Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 3. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
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. 123)
Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine. (p. 33: Kh. Simia counted under As-Samu)
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. 408)

External links

Welcome To Khirbat al-Simya
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21: IAA, Wikimedia commons

Hebron Governorate

Cities	Bani Na'im ad-Dhahiriya Dura Halhul Hebron (al-Khalil) (incl: Arab al-Fureijat • al-Baqa • Al Bowereh • Qalqas • Qla'a Zeta • Wadi al Hussein) Idhna Sa'ir (incl: ad-Duwwara • al-Uddeisa) as-Samu Tarqumiyah Yatta

Towns	Beit Awwa Beit Kahil Beit Ula (Qila) Beit Ummar (Jala) Deir Sammit Kharas Nuba ash-Shuyukh (Hamrush) Surif (Khirbet ad-Deir) Taffuh

Villages	Anab al-Kabir Arab al-Ka'abneh Beit 'Amra Beit Einun Beit Maqdum Beit ar-Rush al-Tahta al-Burj (Beit Mirsim • Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa) al-Buweib Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa Deir al-'Asal al-Tahta Deir Razih ad-Deirat Fuqeiqis Hadab al-Alaqa Hadab al-Fawwar al-Heila Hitta Hureiz Imneizil Imreish Jala Karma al-Karmil Khallet Edar Khallet al-Aqed Khalet al-Maiyya (at-Tabaqa • Umm Lasafa • Wadi Ubeid) Khallet al-Masafer Khashem al-Daraj Khallet Salih Kheroshewesh Wal Hadedeyah Khirbet Safa Khirbet Salama Khirbat al-Simia Khirbet Zanuta Khursa al-Kum Kurza Kuseis Ma'in al-Majd Marah al-Baqqar Masafer Yatta an-Najada Rabud al-Ramadin ar-Rihiya Sahel Wadi Elma Sikka Shuyukh al-Arrub as-Sura Tarrama at-Tuwani Umm Ashoqan Umm al-Butm Umm al-Khair Wadi al-Amayer Wadi al-Kilab Wadi ash-Shajina Zif

Refugee camps	al-Arroub Fawwar

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