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Hadab al-Fawwar

municipality type D in Hebron, State of Palestine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ5637545 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hadab al-Fawwar (Arabic: حدب الفوّار, lit. Sparkling Slope) is a Palestinian village located seven kilometers southwest of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,354 in 2017. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2. It is adjacent to the Palestinian refugee camp of Fawwar.

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.

Editorial summary

“Hadab al-Fawwar” enters the record as municipality type D in Hebron, State of Palestine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hadab, al-Fawwar and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hadab, al-Fawwar and municipality.
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“Hadab al-Fawwar” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hadab, al-Fawwar and municipality provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5637545. VIAF identifies the subject as 140146462559527771194. Authority coordinates are 31.477, 35.056. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hadab al-Fawwar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.