page_title: Dura, Hebron
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Dura, Hebron / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Dura, Palestine, 1930s. Women weaving carpet.
context_page_description: Dura is a Palestinian city located eleven kilometers southwest of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 28,268 in 2007. The current mayor is Ahmad Salhoub.
  The city is identified with the biblical Adoraim, mentioned by Apocrypha and Josephus. The modern Arabic name is a sound conversion from Hebrew.
  In 1517, the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Syria. After the British Mandate, in the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Dura came under Jordanian rule. Dura was established as a municipality on January 1, 1967, five months before it came under Israeli occupation after the Six-Day War. In 1995 it became part of Area A under the Palestinian Authority.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Dura was  divided into Dura al-‘Amaira, with 2,565 inhabitants, and Dura al-Arjan, with 3,269 inhabitants; a total of 5,834, all Muslims. The report of the 1931 census 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 listed in the report had 1538 inhabited houses and a population of 7255 Muslims.
  In  the 1945 statistics   the population of Dura  was   9,700, all  Muslims, who owned 240,704 dunams of land  according to an official land and population survey. 3,917  dunams were plantations and irrigable land,  90,637  for cereals, while 226 dunams were built-up (urban) land. Dura village lands covered in this period an estimated 240 square kilometres (93 sq mi), which included 99 ruined settlement sites.
caption: Women weaving carpet on a ground loom in Dura, 1930s
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