Ein Qiniya or 'Ayn Kiniya is a Palestinian

Palestinian people

The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

 village in the northern West Bank

West Bank

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, located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northwest of Ramallah

Ramallah

Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...

 and is a part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate

Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate

The Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It covers a large part of the central West Bank, on the northern border of the Jerusalem Governorate. Its district capital or muhfaza is the city of al-Bireh.According to the Palestinian Central...

. Ein Qiniya has existed since the Roman

Roman Empire

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-era of rule in Palestine

Palestine

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. The village is very small with no public structures or institutions and is governed by a local development committee. Ein Qiniya is regionally notable for being a spring and autumn time picnic resort.

There is an annual walk on March 4 from Ramallah to Ein Qiniyya in celebration of the spring.

Demographics

In 1917, most of the village's inhabitants were evacuated by British Mandate troops for suspicion that residents killed a British officer and relocated to Beitunia

Beitunia

Beitunia also Bitunya is a Palestinian town located west of Ramallah and north of Jerusalem. The town is in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank...

 and Yalo

Yalo

Yalo was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 kilometres southeast of Ramla. Identified by Edward Robinson as the ancient Canaanite city of Aijalon, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Jordan formally annexed Yalo along with the rest of the West Bank...

. In 1922, the village had a population of 56 which rose to 100 in 1945. In 1982 residents numbered 101, then after a mass migration of other Palestinians to the Ein Qiniya, the population rose to 464 in 1984. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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, in 2006 it had a population of 807. In the 2007 PCBS census, there were 817 people living in the village.