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Al-Walaja or al-Walaja ((アラビア語:الولجة)) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, four kilometers northwest of Bethlehem City. It is an enclave in the Seam Zone, near the Green Line. Al-Walaja is partly under the jurisdiction of the Bethlehem Governorate and partly of the Jerusalem Municipality. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,041 mostly Muslim inhabitants in 2007.〔 It has been called 'the most beautiful village in Palestine'.〔David Dean Shulman, 'On Being Unfree:Fences, Roadblocks and the Iron Cage of Palestine,' Manoa Vol,20, No. 2, 2008, pp. 13-32〕 Al-Walaja was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, in October 1948.〔 It lost about 70% of its land, west of the Green Line. After the war, the displaced inhabitants resettled on the remaining land in the West Bank. After the Six-Day War, Israel annexed about half of al-Walaja's remaining land, including the neighborhood Ain Jawaizeh, to the Jerusalem Municipality. Large parts of the land were confiscated for the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier and the Israeli settlements of Har Gilo and Gilo, one of the Ring Neighborhoods of Jerusalem. ==History== In 1596, al-Walaja appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the ''Nahiya'' of Quds of the ''Liwa'' of Quds. It had a population of 100 Muslim households and 9 bachelors and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, vines or fruit trees, and goats or beehives.〔Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 116〕 In the 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' described al-Walaja as a "good-sized" village built of stone.〔Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. (22 ). Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 322〕 During the latter half of Ottoman rule, al-Walaja was the administrative seat of the Bani Hasan subdistrict (''nahiya'') (which consisted of over ten villages, including al-Khader, Suba, Beit Jala, Ayn Karim and al-Maliha), and served as the throne village of the al-Absiyeh family.〔Macalister and Masterman, 1905, p. (353 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al-Walaja」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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