27 Facts About Ramallah

Ramallah has buildings containing masonry from the period of Herod the Great, but no complete building predates the Crusades of the 11th century.

Ramallah was later captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Since the 1995 Oslo Accords, Ramallah has been governed by the PNA as part of Area A of the West Bank.

In recent years, Ramallah has emerged as a key political, cultural, and economic center.

Several Ramallah buildings incorporate masonry dating back to the reign of Herod the Great .

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Ramallah has been identified with the Crusader place called Ramalie.

Ramallah was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine.

Ramallah grew dramatically throughout the 17th and 18th centuries as an agricultural village, attracting more inhabitants from all around the region.

Currently, Ramallah has a Coptic Church, an Evangelical Lutheran Church and an Episcopalian Church.

In 1901, merchants from Ramallah emigrated to the United States and established import-export businesses, selling handmade rugs and other exotic wares across the Atlantic.

The city remained occupied until the designation of the Palestine Mandate in 1920, resulting in Ramallah falling under British Mandatory control until 1948.

Ramallah residents were issued permits to work in Israel, but did not gain the rights associated with Israeli citizenship.

Ramallah residents were among the early joiners of the First Intifada.

Schools in Ramallah were forcibly shut down, and opened gradually for a few hours a day.

Schoolchildren in Ramallah handed out olive branches to Israeli soldiers patrolling the streets.

Many Ramallah institutions, including government ministries, were vandalized, and equipment was destroyed or stolen.

Munir Hamdan, a member of Fatah and a Ramallah businessman, discussed the concentration of government offices with a journalist.

Ramallah is particularly worried by the construction of a large new governmental complex by the PA.

Many foreign nations have located their diplomatic missions to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, including, as of 2010, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Korea, South Africa, Norway, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, China, Poland, Portugal, The Netherlands, Russia, Jordan, Brazil, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, India, Japan, the Czech Republic, Canada and Mexico.

Ramallah has been described as the seat of power of the Palestinian Authority and serves as the headquarters for most international NGOs and embassies.

An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Ramallah had 249 houses and a population of 635, though the population count included men only.

Ramallah is generally considered the most affluent and cultural, as well as the most liberal, of all Palestinian cities, and is home to a number of popular Palestinian activists, poets, artists, and musicians.

One hallmark of Ramallah is Rukab's Ice Cream, which is based on the resin of chewing gum and thus has a distinctive taste.

Ramallah hosted its first annual international film festival in 2004.

Ramallah women were famous for their distinctive dress of white linen fabric embroidered with red silk thread.

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The headdress or smadeh worn in Ramallah was common throughout northern Palestine: a small roundish cap, padded and stiffened, with gold and silver coins set in a fringe with a long veil pinned to the back, sometimes of silk and sometimes embroidered.

Palestinian family from Ramallah wearing typical Palestinian Ottoman Era clothing, c 1905.