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Coordinates: 32°57′50″N 35°18′08″E / 32.96389°N 35.30222°E / 32.96389; 35.30222
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kisra-Sumei (Arabic: كسرا-سميع; Hebrew: כִּסְרָא-סֻמֵיע) is a local council in the western Galilee in the Northern District of Israel. In 2022 it had a population of 9,223.[1] In April 2019, 95% of the population were Israeli Arabs of the Druze community, with a small Christian minority.[2][3] The town has a Druze holy place as well as a statue to the Druze leader and Syrian nationalist revolutionary Sultan al-Atrash.
The town is the result of a merger between the villages of Kisra and Sumei and it was recognised as a local council in 1990.
History
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Kafr Sumei is identified with the late ancient village of Caparasima (orKefar Simay), mentioned in John Moschus' Spiritual Meadow, a Byzantine ascetic writing dating from the 7th century.[4]
Climate
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Kisra-Sumei has a mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa). The average annual temperature is 17.7 °C (63.9 °F), and around 771 mm (30.35 in) of precipitation falls annually.
| Climate data for Kisra-Sumei
|
| Month
|
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
Year
|
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
|
12.6
(54.7)
|
13.5
(56.3)
|
16.1
(61.0)
|
20.5
(68.9)
|
25.6
(78.1)
|
28.5
(83.3)
|
29.7
(85.5)
|
30.3
(86.5)
|
28.2
(82.8)
|
25.8
(78.4)
|
20.5
(68.9)
|
15
(59)
|
22.2
(71.9)
|
| Daily mean °C (°F)
|
9.6
(49.3)
|
10.3
(50.5)
|
12.2
(54.0)
|
15.6
(60.1)
|
20
(68)
|
23
(73)
|
24.3
(75.7)
|
25
(77)
|
23.3
(73.9)
|
21.1
(70.0)
|
16.6
(61.9)
|
11.9
(53.4)
|
17.7
(63.9)
|
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
|
6.7
(44.1)
|
7.2
(45.0)
|
8.3
(46.9)
|
10.7
(51.3)
|
14.4
(57.9)
|
17.5
(63.5)
|
19
(66)
|
19.8
(67.6)
|
18.4
(65.1)
|
16.4
(61.5)
|
12.7
(54.9)
|
8.8
(47.8)
|
13.3
(56.0)
|
| Average precipitation mm (inches)
|
197
(7.8)
|
152
(6.0)
|
101
(4.0)
|
38
(1.5)
|
11
(0.4)
|
0
(0)
|
0
(0)
|
0
(0)
|
2
(0.1)
|
24
(0.9)
|
85
(3.3)
|
161
(6.3)
|
771
(30.4)
|
| Source: [5]
|
See also
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References
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^ "The Druze population in Israel - a collection of data on the occasion of the Prophet Shuaib holiday" (PDF). CBS - Israel. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
^ Avi-Yonah, Michael (1976). "Gazetteer of Roman Palestine". Qedem. 5: 45. ISSN 0333-5844.
^ "Climate: Kisra-Sumei". September 2019.
Bibliography
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Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (Kisra: 150, 185 Kafr Sumay': 148, 169 (=Guerin))
Dauphin, C. (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4. (Dauphin pp. 637–8, 639)
Frankel, Rafael (1988). "Topographical notes on the territory of Acre in the Crusader period". Israel Exploration Journal. 38 (4): 249–272.
Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (Kesra: pp. 77-78; Kefr Semeia: p. 77)
Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.(p. 192)
Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (Kisra: “The fragment”; p. 51; Kefr Sumeia: “The village of Sumeiả”; p. 44)
Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
Röhricht, R. (1893). (RRH) Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI) (in Latin). Berlin: Libraria Academica Wageriana.
Schumacher, G. (1888). "Population list of the Liwa of Akka". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 20: 169–191. (p. 174, 191)
Strehlke, Ernst, ed. (1869). Tabulae Ordinis Theutonici ex tabularii regii Berolinensis codice potissimum. Berlin: Weidmanns. (Strehlke, 1869, pp. 57-58, No. 73; cited in Röhricht, 1893, RRH p. 267, No. 1020; cited in Frankel, 1988, p. 255)
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