Hadab al-Fawwar

Hadab al-Fawwar (Arabic: حدب الفوّار‎, lit. Sparkling Slope) is a Palestinian village located seven kilometers southwest 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 1,918 in 2007.[2] The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.[3]

Hadab al-Fawwar
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicحدب الفوّار
Hadab al-Fawwar
Location of Hadab al-Fawwar within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°28′36″N 35°03′20″E
Palestine grid155/098
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateHebron
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2007)
 • Total1,918
Name meaningThe hummock[1]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "Walls, a deep cistern, and a large tomb, sequently used as a stable."[5]

Footnotes
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 393
  2. 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.119.
  3. West Bank Health care
  4. Dauphin, 1998, p. 962
  5. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 329

Bibliography
  • Conder, C.R.; 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.
  • Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
  • 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.
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