
Rameh
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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
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
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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- Rameh
- native label
- الرامة
- name
- "the queen of Palestinian oil"
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- 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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