Shuyukh al-Arrub

Shuyukh al-Arrub (Arabic: شيوخ العروب‎) is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-east of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,550 inhabitants in 2007.[2] The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.[3]

Shuyukh al-Arrub
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicشيوخ العروب
Shuyukh al-Arrub
Location of Shuyukh al-Arrub within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°36′57″N 35°08′51″E
Palestine grid163/113
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateHebron
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2007)
 • Total1,550
Name meaningBirket el Arrub, the well of Arrub[1]

Location

Shuyukh al-Arrub is located 11 km north of Hebron City. It is bordered by Kuziba and Irqan Turad to the east, Beit Fajjar to the north, Halhul and Sa'ir to the south and Al 'Arrub Camp to the west.[4]

History

In 892 AH (1487 CE), Qansuh Al Yahyawi, a Mamluk, renewed the water supply from Ain al-Arrub.[5]

In the 1850s, people from Ash Shuyukh settled the area.[6]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Birket el 'Arrub as: "one of the main reservoirs supplying the aqueduct to Jerusalem. There are two channels, one from Birket Kufin, one from 'Ain Kueiziba, which join [here]."[7]

Modern era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Shuyukh al-Arrub came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 242 inhabitants in Shuyukh Arrub.[8]

Since the 1967 Six Day War, Shuyukh al-Arrub has been under Israeli occupation.

References
  1. Arrub, from personal name meaning a woman who loves her husband, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 392
  2. 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.118.
  3. West Bank Health care at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2006-03-13)
  4. Shuyukh Al 'Arrub village profile, ARIJ, p. 3
  5. Mayer, 1933, p. 180
  6. Shuyukh Al 'Arrub village profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  7. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP II, pp. 325-6
  8. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 23

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