al-Walaja
Vanished settlement · Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1596
- Population
- 1,656
- Coordinates
- 31.731, 35.164
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Al-Walaja is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, in the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine, four kilometers northwest of Bethlehem. 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 2,671 in 2017. It has been called 'the most beautiful village in Palestine'.