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Definition of Dunams
1. dunam [n] - See also: dunam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunams
Literary usage of Dunams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palestinian Refugees: Challenges of Repatriation and Development by Rex Brynen, Roula El-Rifai (2007)
"Housing densities are an average of 17 persons/dunam (pd), increasing to 90 pd
in Shati camp (10 dunams = 1 hectare). The plan calls for an increase in ..."
2. Millions Now Living Will Never Die! by Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1920)
"... of February 25,1920, says: "One million seven hundred thousand eucalyptus and
other kinds of forest trees are to be planted on an area of 21125 dunams. ..."
3. Destruction of a Planet: Zionism Is Racism by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1991)
"In 1967, some 525000 dunams of West Bank land (a dunam is about a ... Such expedients
have more than tripled state lands to about 1.8 million dunams. ..."
4. Chronicle of Progress by Peter Vine, Ibrahim Abed, Paula Casey-Vine, Abdullah Al Jabali (1996)
"25 May: Sheikh Zayed ordered the planting of 300 dunams of wheat in the Al-Saad
region following the successful experimental planting of 300 dunams in ..."
5. History of Zionism, 1600-1918 by Nahum Sokolow (1919)
"He secured 10000 dunams of land in the Hauran on favourable terms. The departure
of Colonel Goldsmid for the Argentine made his work more arduous. d'Avigdor ..."
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