Al-Majd (Arabic: خربة المجد) is a Palestinian village located eighteen kilometers south-west of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate of Palestine, in the southern West Bank. The village had a population of 2,277 in 2017.[1]
al-Majd | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | خربة المجد |
al-Majd Location of al-Majd within Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°28′50″N 34°57′01″E / 31.48056°N 34.95028°E | |
Palestine grid | 145/098 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Hebron |
Government | |
• Type | Village council |
Population (2017)[1] | |
• Total | 2,277 |
Name meaning | Glory[2] |
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[3]
In 1863, Victor Guérin called it Khirbet Medjed.[4]
In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Palestine found here "Caves, cisterns, and pillar shafts; a ruined chapel seems to have stood there".[5]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Al-Majd came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 466 inhabitants in Al-Majd.[6]
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Al-Majd has been under Israeli occupation.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,925 in 2007.[7]