Английская Википедия:Al-Bireh

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Al-Bireh, al-Birah, or el-Bira (Шаблон:Lang-ar; also known historically as Castrum Mahomeria, Magna Mahomeria, Mahomeria Major, Birra, or Beirothah) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank, Шаблон:Convert north of Jerusalem.[1] It is the capital of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine. It is situated on the central ridge running through the West Bank and is Шаблон:Convert above sea level, covering an area of Шаблон:Convert. Al-Bireh is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority (as part of Area A).

Because of its location Al-Bireh served as an economic crossroad between the north and south, along the caravan route between Jerusalem and Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the city had a population of approximately 45,975 in the 2017 census.[2]

History

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Al-Bireh Crusader Church, circa 1881.[3]

Edward Robinson in the early 19th century thought Al-Bireh was the biblical Be'eroth,[4] but modern scholars believe Be'eroth was located at Kh. el-Burj near Beit Iksa.[5]

In the Hellenistic period, it was also known as Berea or Beroth, and Seleucid general Bacchides camped there in 161 BCE before attacking Judas Maccabaeus's forces at Elasa.[6]

Claude Reignier Conder and others identified it with Beirothah of the Samaritan chronicles.[5][7]

Medieval period

The Crusaders captured and named the town Birra. It was also called Castrum Mahomeria, Magna Mahomeria or Mahomeria Major.[8] It was one of 21 villages given by King Godfrey as a fief to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.[9] In 1114, the gift was re-confirmed by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.[10]

In 1156, 92 people from Mahomeria pledged their allegiance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and a further 50 names were added in the next three decades. Hence, it has been estimated that the total Frankish population at this time was 500–700.[8][11]

The Crusaders built a castle,[12] church and hospice there.[8][13][14] The latter two buildings were built by the Knights Templar in 1146 and belonged to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Ayyubids under Saladin drove away the Crusaders from Birra when they reconquered interior Palestine after the Battle of Hattin in 1187, and completely demolished the town. Yaqut al-Hamawi mentions seeing the ruins a few times during his travels in the area.[15] Nearing the end of Ayyubid rule, in 1280, the modern town of al-Bireh was an inhabited village. The Ayyubids built a mosque in the town dedicated to Umar ibn al-Khattab adjacent to the church ruins.[16]

Potsherds from the Crusader/Ayyubid era have been found.[5]

Ottoman era

Al-Bireh, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village, called Bira al-Kubra, was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Al-Quds which was under the administration of the liwa ("district") of Al-Quds. It had a population of 45 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, olive trees, fruit trees, occasional revenues, beehives and/or goats; a total of 4,570 akçe. Half of the revenue went to a waqf.[17]

In the spring of 1697, Henry Maundrell noted at Al Bireh, which he called Beer, the remains of a Church, which he wrote was built by Empress Helena.[18]

After the 1834 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Ottoman authorities conscripted many men from Al-Bireh as soldiers. In 1838, when Robinson visited, 60 had been taken away to be soldiers, out of a total population of 700.[4] Robinson noted it as a Muslim village, el-Bireh, located in the area immediately north of Jerusalem.[19]

When French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1863, he found it to have 800 inhabitants.[20]

Socin, citing an official Ottoman village list compiled around 1870, noted that Al-Bireh had a population of 399 Muslims in 142 houses, and 20 "Greeks" in 5 houses, though that population count included only men. It was further noted that the name meant "The cistern".[21] Hartmann found that Al-Bireh had 142 houses.[22]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Bireh as a good-sized village, with "fairly well built" houses.[23]

In 1896, the population of Bireh was estimated to be about 1,080 persons.[24]

Until 1917, the city served as a political and administrative center for the Ottoman Empire.Шаблон:Citation needed

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al-Bireh had a population of 1,479; 1,407 Muslims, and 72 Christians,[25] where the Christians were 61 Orthodox, 3 Roman Catholics and 8 "other".[26] The population had increased in the 1931 census to 2,292; 2,044 Muslim and 248 Christians, in 541 houses.[27]

In the 1945 statistics, the town's residents numbered 2,920; of which 280 were Christians and 2,640 Muslims,[28] while urban Bireh had 967 dunams of land, and rural Bireh 22,045 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[29] Of this, 5,162 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 11,226 used for cereals,[30] while 759 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[31]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Al-Bireh came under Jordanian rule.[32]

In 1961, the population of Bira was 14,510.[33]

Post-1967 era

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Great Mosque, al-Bireh

During the Six-Day War, on June 6, 1967, Israeli troops occupied the city, and Al-Bireh has been under Israeli occupation since.

Israel confiscated 346 dunams of land from Al-Bireh in order to build the Israeli settlement of Beit El (established in 1977) in addition to 780 dunams in order to build Pesagot (established in 1981).[34]

In 1994, the civil administration of the city was turned over to the Palestinian National Authority under the Oslo Accords. Al-Bireh is the second largest center of Palestinian administration after Gaza. Besides the governor's headquarters, it also hosts a considerable number of governmental, non-governmental, and private organizations, including the Ministries of Transportation, Supply, Information, Public Works and Higher Education,Шаблон:Citation needed as well as the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.[35] Due to its proximity with Ramallah, the cities form a single constituency for elections to the Palestinian National Authority.

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Al-Bireh Aerial photo

After the 1995 accords, 39.8% of village land was classified as Area A, 5% as Area B, while the remaining 55.2% was classified as Area C.[36]

Demographics

The 1997 census carried out by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics counted 27,856 residents, exactly half male and half female.[37] The majority of the inhabitants were Palestinian refugees who made up 55.4% of the total population.[38] In the 2007 PCBS census, there were 38,202 people living in the city.[39]

Al-Bireh is inhabited by 5 major clans: Qur'an, Hamayel, 'Abed, Qaraqra, At Taweel and Ar Rafidi.[40]

Government

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Al-Bireh City Hall

Al-Bireh established a city council headed by mayor Eid Musa in 1928 under the British Mandate. Eight other mayors took office either through elections or government appointments. The city had some well known mayors, including Abudul Jawad Saleh who was mayor in the 1970s until exiled by the Israelis. He later went on to become a member of the PLO executive committee and then minister of agriculture in the Palestinian Authority. In 1982, Israel instated a civil administration, but later appointed an Arab mayor, Hassan al-Tawil. In 1988, after two years in office, he was stabbed and critically wounded outside his office.[41] In 1996, a 12-member municipal council was established by the Palestinian National Authority with Sheikh Jamal al-Tawil as mayor.[42]

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Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate Health Directorate

In the Palestinian municipal elections in 2005, the Hamas-backed Reform and Change List won 9 of the 15 seats, while independent lists won the remaining 6.[43] The current mayor is Azzam Esmail.

In 2010, a public square in al-Bireh was dedicated to the memory of Dalal Mughrabi, leader of an attack that killed 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, in 1978.[44]

Health and education

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John Kerry visiting Al-Bireh youth center

In 2010, the Jerusalem Fund, National Arab American Medical Association Foundation and Physicians for Peace dedicated the Palestine Diabetes Institute in al-Bireh.[45] Al-Quds University maintains a campus in al-Bireh.

Sports

The 7,000-seat Majed Ass'ad or Al Bireh International Stadium was completed in 2010; originally constructed in 1996, it was upgraded to international standards from 2006 to 2010 at a cost of €3 million.[46] The work was funded by France, the German Development Bank, the UN Development Agency, and FIFA.[47] Construction was halted by the Israeli Supreme Planning Council on November 1, 2009, but resumed in late December.[48] In November 2009, the nearby settlement of Psagot petitioned the High Court of Justice to have the stadium shut down, citing concerns that rowdy soccer fans might attack Psagot.[49]

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Friends Stadium in Al-Bireh

Al Bireh Youth Foundation is the most prominent sports club in the city, mostly famous for its football teams and ancient scouts association.[50]

Twin towns – sister cities

Шаблон:See also Al-Bireh is twinned with:[51]

Notable people

References

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  1. ↑ Al Bireh City Шаблон:Webarchive
  2. ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок PrelimCensus2017 не указан текст
  3. ↑ Wilson, c1881, vol 1, p.215
  4. ↑ 4,0 4,1 Robinson and Smith, 1841, pp. 130 - 133
  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 Finkelstein et al., 1997, p. 510
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
  7. ↑ Conder, 1876, p. 196
  8. ↑ 8,0 8,1 8,2 Pringle, 1993, pp. 161 - 165
  9. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 11
  10. ↑ de Roziére, 1849, p. 263, cited in Röhricht, 1893, RRH, pp. 16 - 17, No 74
  11. ↑ de Roziére, 1849, pp. 242 -244, cited in Röhricht, 1893, RRH, pp. 77 - 78, No 302
  12. ↑ Pringle, 1997, p. 35
  13. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, pp. 88-89
  14. ↑ Pringle, 2009, pp. 259 - 266
  15. ↑ Le Strange, 1890, p. 423
  16. ↑ Sharon, 1999, pp. 236-239
  17. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 116
  18. ↑ Maundrell, 1703, p. 63: March 25, 1697, cited in Wilson, c1881, vol 1, p. 218
  19. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, 2nd appendix, p. 122
  20. ↑ Guérin, 1869, pp. 7-13
  21. ↑ Socin, 1879, p. 148
  22. ↑ Hartmann, 1883, p. 127
  23. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, pp. 8-9
  24. ↑ Schick, 1896, p. 121
  25. ↑ Barron, 1923, p. 16
  26. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XIV, p. 45
  27. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 48
  28. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26
  29. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64
  30. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 111
  31. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 161
  32. ↑ The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History, p. 73
  33. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 15
  34. ↑ Al Bireh City Profile ARIJ, p. 17
  35. ↑ General view of al-Bireh Шаблон:Webarchive Al-Bireh Municipality.
  36. ↑ Al-Bira City City Profile, ARIJ, pp. 16−17
  37. ↑ Palestinian Population by Locality, Sex and Age Groups in Years Шаблон:Webarchive Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
  38. ↑ Palestinian Population by Locality and Refugee Status Шаблон:Webarchive Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
  39. ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.114.
  40. ↑ Al Bireh City Profile p. 7
  41. ↑ Israeli-Selected Arab Mayor Is Stabbed, The New York Times
  42. ↑ History of City Council Шаблон:Webarchive
  43. ↑ Local Elections (Round Four)- Successful lists by local authority and No. of votes obtainedШаблон:Dead link Central Elections Commission - Palestine.
  44. ↑ Palestinians Honor a Figure Reviled in Israel as a TerroristThe New York Times.
  45. ↑ The Jerusalem Fund Dedicates Palestine Diabetes Institute in Al-Bireh, Palestine
  46. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  47. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  48. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  49. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  50. ↑ They teach Al-Bireh residents how to get a kick out of life, The Jerusalem Post
  51. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  52. ↑ Barghouti, Ze'evi assassin among prisoners to be freed
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