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Rameh
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Also known as Kafr Al-Rameh, Kafr Rameh, Rama, Qaf'r Al-Rammeh, Rame, Al-Rama

Rameh (; ; alternatively spelled ar-Rame or ar-Rama) is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel. Located east of Nahf and Karmiel, in it had a population of . Around half of the inhabitants are Christians, mostly Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic, over a third are Druze and the remainder are Muslims.

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Place details

Locality
الرامة
Region
מחוז הצפון
Country
ישראל
Population
7,728
Timezone
Asia/Jerusalem

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Key facts

Settlement.name
Rameh
Settlement.settlement_type
Local council (from 2005)
Settlement.translit_lang1
Hebrew
Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
ISO 259
Settlement.translit_lang1_info1
Ráma
Settlement.translit_lang1_type3
Also spelled
Settlement.image_skyline
Rameh.jpg
Settlement.pushpin_map
Israel northwest#Israel
Settlement.grid_name
Grid position
Settlement.grid_position
184/260 PAL
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Northern
Settlement.unit_pref
dunam
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.demographics_type1
Ethnicity
Settlement.demographics1_title1
Arabs
Settlement.demographics1_info1
99.8%

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Wikidata facts

Official name
الرامة
Population
376
Area
6.118
Elevation
420
Image
Rameh.jpg
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Commons category
Rameh
native label
الرامة
name
"the queen of Palestinian oil"
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Article

13 sections
Contents
  • Location
  • History
  • Late antiquity
  • Ottoman period
  • British Mandatory period
  • State of Israel
  • Olive Cultivation
  • Demography
  • Notable people
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

Rameh (; ; alternatively spelled ar-Rame or ar-Rama) is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel. Located east of Nahf and Karmiel, in it had a population of . Around half of the inhabitants are Christians, mostly Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic, over a third are Druze and the remainder are Muslims.

A village council was established for Rameh under the British in 1922, of the first in Mandatory Palestine. Rameh's Christian and Muslim residents were temporarily expelled after its capture by Israeli forces in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, but they returned to the village, which also became home to many internally displaced Palestinians from nearby villages. A village council was established in 1954 by the Israeli government to oversee village affairs; from 1959 on, council members were elected. As of the 1960s, the people of Rameh have been noted for their high levels of education and standards of living. The village was home to the well-known poet Samih al-Qasim, the Greek Orthodox archbishop Atallah Hanna and artist Mira Awad.

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