Qalqilya

Qalqilya is a Palestinian metropolis inside the West Bank. Qalqilya serves as the workplace of the Qalqilya Governorate. In the respectable 2007 census the town had a populace of 41,739. Qalqilya is surrounded by way of the Israeli West Bank barrier with a narrow hole inside the east managed by the Israeli navy and a tunnel to Hableh. The location of Qalqilya has been populated due to the fact that prehistoric times, as attested to via the invention of prehistoric flint tools. In 1596, Qalqilya regarded in Ottoman tax registers as a village inside the nahiya of Bani Sa'b in the Liwa of Nablus.

It had a populace of 13 Muslim families and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, and goats or beehives; a total of 3,910 akce. In 1838, Robinson referred to Kulakilieh as a village in Beni Sa'ab district, west of Nablus. In 1870, Victor Guérin found it to be a village with 200 population. In 1882, Qalqilya became defined as "A massive incredibly straggling village, with cisterns to the north and a pool at the south-west. The homes are badly built." In 1883 a few moved to there from close by Baqat al-Hatab, and in 1909 a municipal council to manage Qalqilya became installed.