Aboud

Aboud
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	عابود
• Also spelled	'Abud (official) Abboud (unofficial)
Aboud from the south
Aboud Location of Aboud within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°00′54″N 35°04′05″E / 32.01500°N 35.06806°E / 32.01500; 35.06806Coordinates: 32°00′54″N 35°04′05″E / 32.01500°N 35.06806°E / 32.01500; 35.06806
Palestine grid	156/158
Governorate	Ramallah & al-Bireh
Government
• Type	Village council
• Head of Municipality	Elias Azar
Area
• Jurisdiction	15,000 dunams (15.0 km2 or 5.8 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	2,084
Name meaning	Abud, personal name, from "to worship"

Aboud (Arabic: عابود‎‎, `Ābūd) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, Palestinian territories, about 22 kilometers northwest of Ramallah and 30 kilometers north of Jerusalem. Nearby towns include al-Lubban to the northeast and Bani Zeid to the northwest.

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of approximately 2,084 inhabitants in 2007. It has a mixed population of Muslims and Christians, mostly Eastern Orthodox. Near the village are numerous natural springs, which are sources for the Yarkon River.

Sherds from the Iron Age II, Byzantine, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk eras have been found.

There is archeological evidence that the village was inhabited during the Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman eras.

During Fatimid, in 1030, a Christian monk from Aboud named Elias copied Syriac manuscripts in Antioch. He later returned to Aboud and founded the Deir al-Kaukab monastery near the village. A Palestinian-Syriac inscription in the St. Mary Church in Aboud indicate that the church existed in the village by at least 1058, also during Fatimid rule.