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Sa'ir, the Glossary

Sa'ir (سعير, also spelled Saeer, Seir, or Si'ir) is a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the southern West Bank, located northeast of Hebron.^[1]

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Cities in the West Bank

Ad-Duwwara

ad-Duwwara (الدوّارة) is a Palestinian village located four kilometers east of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. Sa'ir and ad-Duwwara are Hebron Governorate and Municipalities of the State of Palestine.

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Al-Arroub (camp)

Al-Arroub (Camp al-'Arrub) is a Palestinian refugee camp located adjacent to the town of Shuyukh al-Arrub in the southern West Bank along the Hebron-Jerusalem road, in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine. Sa'ir and al-Arroub (camp) are Hebron Governorate.

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Al-Shuyukh

Ash-Shuyukh or al-Shuyukh (الشيوخ) is a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, located 6 km northeast of the city of Hebron. Sa'ir and al-Shuyukh are Hebron Governorate and Municipalities of the State of Palestine.

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Al-Uddeisa

al-Uddeisa, also spelled Al 'Uddeisa, is a Palestinian village located four kilometers east of Hebron.The village is a locality of Sa'ir, in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. Sa'ir and al-Uddeisa are Hebron Governorate and Municipalities of the State of Palestine.

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Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem

The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ; معهد الابحاث التطبيقية - القدس) is a Palestinian NGO founded in 1990 with its main office in Bethlehem in the West Bank.

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Arabic script

The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa.

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Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.

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Beit Einun

Beit Einun or Bayt 'Anun (بيت عينون) is a Palestinian village in the Hebron Governorate, located five kilometers northeast of Hebron in the southern West Bank. Sa'ir and Beit Einun are Hebron Governorate and Municipalities of the State of Palestine.

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Beit Fajjar

Beit Fajjar (بيت فجّار) is a Palestinian town located eight kilometers south of Bethlehem in the Bethlehem Governorate, in the central West Bank. Sa'ir and Beit Fajjar are Municipalities of the State of Palestine.

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Beit Ummar

Beit Ummar (بيت اُمّر) is a Palestinian town located eleven kilometers northwest of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine. Sa'ir and Beit Ummar are Hebron Governorate.

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Bilad al-Sham

Bilad al-Sham (Bilād al-Shām), often referred to as Islamic Syria or simply Syria in English-language sources, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates.

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Book of Joshua

The Book of Joshua (סֵפֶר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, Tiberian: Sēp̄er Yŏhōšūaʿ; Ιησούς τουΝαυή; Liber Iosue) is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Custody of the Holy Land

The Custody of the Holy Land (Latin: Custodia Terræ Sanctæ) is a custodian priory of the Order of Friars Minor in Jerusalem, founded as the Province of the Holy Land in 1217 by Saint Francis of Assisi, who had also founded the Franciscan Order in 1209.

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Dead Sea

The Dead Sea (al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or label; Yām hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west.

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Dunam

A dunam (Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: دونم; dönüm; דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of oxen in a day.

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Esau

Esau is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible.

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Francesco Suriano

Francesco Suriano (1445 – after 1481) was an Italian friar of the Franciscan order, who wrote a guide for travel to the Holy Land.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.

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Governorates of Palestine

The Governorates of Palestine (محافظات فلسطين) are the administrative divisions of the State of Palestine.

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Halhul

Halhul (حلحول, transliteration: Ḥalḥūl) is a city in Palestine, is a Palestinian city located in the southern part of the West Bank, north of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate of Palestine. Sa'ir and Halhul are Cities in the West Bank and Hebron Governorate.

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Hamas

Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (lit), is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant resistance movement governing parts of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.

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Hebron

Hebron (الخليل, or خَلِيل الرَّحْمَن; חֶבְרוֹן) is a Palestinian. Sa'ir and Hebron are Cities in the West Bank, Hebron Governorate and Municipalities of the State of Palestine.

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Hebron Governorate

The Hebron Governorate (Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḫalīl) is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.

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Hebron Hills

The Hebron Hills, also known as Mount Hebron (translit, translit), are a mountain ridge, geographic region, and geologic formation, constituting the southern part of the Judean Mountains.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israeli occupation of the West Bank

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then ruled by Jordan, during the Six-Day War.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jordanian annexation of the West Bank

The Jordanian administration of the West Bank officially began on April 24, 1950, and ended with the decision to sever ties on July 31, 1988.

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Khirbet Kuwayzibah

Khirbet Kuwayzibah (كوزيبا, ח'רבת כויזבה), also Kuzibah, Kueiziba, is an ancient ruin, partly inhabited, in the Hebron Governorate in the West Bank, presently part of Sa'ir. Sa'ir and Khirbet Kuwayzibah are Hebron Governorate.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Levy Economics Institute

Founded in 1986 as the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy think tank.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

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Maqam (shrine)

A Maqām (مقام) is a Muslim shrine constructed at a site linked to a religious figure or saint, commonly found in the Levant (or al-Shām), which comprises the present-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Israel.

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Mihrab

Mihrab (محراب,, pl. محاريب) is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Misrad HaHutz; وزارة الخارجية الإسرائيلية) is one of the most important ministries in the Israeli government.

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Mount Seir

Mount Seir (Har Sēʿir) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah.

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A municipality (هيئة محلية) is an administrative unit of local government similar to a city. Sa'ir and municipality (Palestinian Authority) are Municipalities of the State of Palestine.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Nahiyah

A nāḥiyah (نَاحِيَة, plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns.

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Olive

The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin.

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Oslo Accords

The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995.

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Ostrich

Ostriches are large flightless birds.

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Ottoman Syria

Ottoman Syria (سوريا العثمانية) was a group of divisions of the Ottoman Empire within the region of Syria, usually defined as being east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Euphrates River, north of the Arabian Desert and south of the Taurus Mountains.

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Palestine Exploration Fund

The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London.

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Palestine grid

The Palestine grid was the geographic coordinate system used by the Survey Department of Palestine.

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Palestinian Authority

The Palestinian Authority, officially known as the Palestinian National Authority or the State of Palestine, is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords.

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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; translit) is the official statistical institution of the State of Palestine.

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Palestinian enclaves

The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

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PEF Survey of Palestine

The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the completed Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the soon abandoned Survey of Eastern Palestine.

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Rock-cut tomb

A rock-cut tomb is a burial chamber that is cut into an existing, naturally occurring rock formation, so a type of rock-cut architecture.

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Sanjak

A sanjak (سنجاق,, "flag, banner") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.

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Second Intifada

The Second Intifada (lit; האינתיפאדה השנייה), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against the Israeli occupation, characterized by a period of heightened violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel between 2000 and 2005.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa'ir

Also known as History of Sa'ir, Sa'eer, Saeer, Sair, Si'ir, Si`ir.

, PEF Survey of Palestine, Rock-cut tomb, Sanjak, Second Intifada, Six-Day War, State of Palestine, Terra Sancta Museum, The Independent, Victor Guérin, Village Statistics, 1945, West Bank, Wheat, 1922 census of Palestine, 1931 census of Palestine, 1948 Arab–Israeli War, 1949 Armistice Agreements, 2004–05 Palestinian local elections.

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Cities in the West Bank

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