Saffa, Ramallah

Saffa
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	صفّا
Saffa Location of Saffa within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 31°54′25″N 35°03′30″E / 31.90694°N 35.05833°E / 31.90694; 35.05833Coordinates: 31°54′25″N 35°03′30″E / 31.90694°N 35.05833°E / 31.90694; 35.05833
Governorate	Ramallah & al-Bireh
Government
• Type	Municipality
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	3,802

Saffa (Arabic: صفّا‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 18 kilometers west of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of approximately 3,802 inhabitants in 2007.^[1]

Footnotes

↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.114.

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. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 7 )
Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3. (p. 151)
Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 48 p. 109? )
Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
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. (p. 329 )
Röhricht, R. (1887). "Studien zur mittelalterlichen Geographie und Topographie Syriens". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 10: 195–344. (p. 213: proposed identifying the village with Casale Saphet of the Crusader period. Cited in Finkelstein, p. 151)
Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163. (p. 159)

External links

Welcome To Saffa
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
Saffa village (fact sheet), ARIJ
Saffa village profile, ARIJ
Saffa aerial photo, ARIJ

Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate

Cities	Beitunia al-Bireh Ramallah Rawabi (under construction)

Municipalities	Bani Zeid Beit Rima Deir Ghassana Bani Zeid al-Sharqiya 'Arura Mazari al-Nubani Beit Liqya Bir Zeit Deir Dibwan al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya Ni'lin Silwad Sinjil Turmus Ayya al-Zaitounah Abu Shukhaidem al-Mazra'a al-Qibliya al-Ittihad Beitillu Deir 'Ammar Jammala Taybeh

Village councils	Aboud Abu Qash Abwein Ajjul 'Atara Badiw al-Muarrajat Beitin Beit Ur al-Fauqa Beit Ur al-Tahta Bil'in Beit Sira Budrus Burham Burqa Deir Ibzi Deir Jarir Deir Abu Mash'al Deir Nidham Deir Qaddis Deir as-Sudan Dura al-Qar' Ein 'Arik Ein Qiniya Ein Siniya Ein Yabrud al-Janiya Jibiya Jifna Jilijliya Kafr Ein Kafr Malik Kafr Ni'ma Kharbatha al-Misbah Kharbatha Bani Harith Khirbet Abu Falah Kobar al-Lubban al-Gharbi al-Midya al-Mughayyir Nabi Salih Qarawat Bani Zeid Qibya Rammun Rantis Ras Karkar Saffa Shabtin Shuqba Surda Umm Safa Yabrud

Refugee camps	Am'ari Deir 'Ammar Jalazone Qaddura Silwad

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