Rabud

Coordinates: 31°26′0″N 35°1′0″E / 31.43333°N 35.01667°E / 31.43333; 35.01667
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Rabud
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicرابود
 • LatinKhirbet Rabud (official)
Rabud
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Rabud is located in State of Palestine
Rabud
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Location of Rabud within Palestine
Rabud is located in the West Bank
Rabud
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Location of Rabud within The West Bank
Coordinates: 31°26′0″N 35°1′0″E / 31.43333°N 35.01667°E / 31.43333; 35.01667
Palestine grid151/093
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateHebron
Government
 • TypeVillage council (from 1993)
 • Head of MunicipalityMuhammad Huraibat[1]
Area
 • Total2,200 dunams (2.2 km2 or 0.8 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[2]
 • Total2,816
 • Density1,300/km2 (3,300/sq mi)

Rabud (Arabic: رابود, also spelled Khirbet Rabud) is a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine. The village was the site of an ancient Canaanite city. The village had a population of 2,816 in 2017.[2]

Etymology[edit]

According to Palmer, the name Khirbet Rabud means "the ruin of the animal's lair".[3]

Demographics[edit]

Part of the Hebron Governorate of Palestine, it is located 13 kilometers southwest of Hebron and about 5 km northwest of as-Samu. Rabud had a population of 2,262 in the 2007 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).[4] The principal families are the Huraibat, Quteinah, al-Uqela and Shanan.[5]

History[edit]

Antiquity[edit]

According to research by the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, Rabud's history dates back to the Canaanite period in Palestine, but the modern inhabitants of the village migrated from the Arabian Peninsula.[5]

Rabud is thought to lie on the site of the ancient Judean Kohanic city of Kiryat Sefer or Debir.[6] By the seventh century BCE, the site of Khirbet Rabud had grown to a relatively large town that featured both a fortified city and an unwalled settlement. Both were razed when the First Temple was destroyed (587-6 BCE). It was limited settlement during the Persian period.[7]

Late Antiquity[edit]

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[8]

Ottoman period[edit]

In 1863, Victor Guérin found here "caves and cisterns dug into the rock, ...small demolished houses and, on the highest point, the remains of a roughly built tower". North and south-east of this place were two pierced walls, with many caves. Guérin named them Heurkan Beni Hasan.[9][10]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found here "walls, cisterns, and rude cave tombs."[10]

British Mandate period[edit]

The 1931 census of Palestine wrote that "the village in the Hebron sub-district commonly known as Dura is a congeries of neighbouring localities each of which has a distinctive name; and, while Dura is a remarkable example of neighbourly agglutination, the phenomenon is not infrequent in other villages". The total of 70 locations, among them Kh. Rabud, listed in the report had 1538 occupied houses and a population of 7255 Muslims.[11]

Jordanian period[edit]

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

In 1961, the population of Rabud was 206.[12]

Post-1967[edit]

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Rabud has been under Israeli occupation.

A village council was established by the Palestinian National Authority in 1993 to administer Rabud's civil affairs and provide limited municipal services.[5] There is currently one mosque, Salah ad-Din Mosque, which serves the village.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rabud Profile. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC).
  2. ^ a b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  3. ^ Palmer, 1881, p 401
  4. ^ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
  5. ^ a b c Rabud Village Profile. Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ). 2009.
  6. ^ Trevor Bryce (2009). The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: From the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire. Taylor & Francis. p. 588. ISBN 978-0-415-39485-7
  7. ^ Faust, Avraham (2012). Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation. Society of Biblical Literature. p. 26. doi:10.2307/j.ctt5vjz28. ISBN 978-1-58983-725-6.
  8. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 967
  9. ^ Guérin, 1869, p. 370
  10. ^ a b Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 360
  11. ^ Mills, 1932, pp. Preface, 28–32
  12. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 22

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