Yatta, Hebron

Yatta or Yattah (; ) is a Palestinian ceety locatit in the Hebron Govrenorate on a heich approximately 8 km sooth o the ceety o Hebron in the Wast Bank. Accordin tae the Palestinian Central Bureau o Statistics it haed a population o 48,672 in 2007.2007 PCBS Census  Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.118.MongaBay: Palestine City Populations

History
Yatta is locatit on the steid o the Biblical toun o Juttah. A Jewish burial complex datin tae the 2nt century CE wis foond in the toun in 1931. Eusebius (4t-cent.) wrote that Yatta wis "a vera lairge veelage o Jews aichteen miles sooth o Beit Guvrin."

In 1596 it wis recordit as haein a population o 127 Muslim families, an paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, goats an bee-hives.* In 1931 the population wis coontit as 4,034 Muslims.Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem, 1932, p. 34. The day, some Palestinian-Arab residents believe they oreeginate frae the Jewish kinrick o Khaybar in the sooth-wastren Arabie Peninsulae an are descendit frae the Jewish tribes o Arabie.A tragic misunderstanding , The Sunday Times, January 13, 2009. Research by Yitzhak Ben Zvi in 1928 also suggested that three out of the six extended families in Yatta belonged to the "Mehamra" group and possibly descended from an Arabian Jewish tribe.

Seiven Palestinians wur killed in Yatta durin the Seicont Intifada in different incidents frae 2002-04.Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories  B'Tselem

Cultur
A Jillayeh dress frae  Yatta frae aroond 1910 is pairt o the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) at Museum of New Mexico at Santa Fe.Stillman, 1979, p. 59, 60

References

Bibliography

External links
Yatta Town (Fact Sheet)

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