Rām Allāh

LC control no.	n 81063028
Descriptive conventions	rda
Geographic heading	Rām Allāh *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usage	West Bank--Rām Allāh
Variant(s)	Ramallah Rahm Alla Baladīyat Rām Allāh Ramallah Municipality
Found in	Rām Allāh fī al-ṣiḥāfah, 1-1/30-6-1999: t.p. (Baladīyat Rām Allāh, Ramallah Municipality) Britannica, viewed Oct. 2nd, 2024: (Ramallah ; town in the West Bank, adjacent to the town of Al-Bīrah (east) and north of Jerusalem. Administered as part of the British mandate of Palestine (1920-48), Ramallah was part of the West Bank territory taken by Arab forces in the first of the Arab-Israeli wars (1948-49) and subsequently annexed by Jordan. After the Six-Day War of 1967, Ramallah was under Israeli control as part of the occupied West Bank territory until coming under the administration of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the wake of the 1993 Oslo Accords; it later became the centre of PA administration in the West Bank.)
Geographic area code	awba---