Yaquq
Yaquq
ياقوق | ||
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Village | ||
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| Etymology: from personal name[1] | ||
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Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine | | |
| Subdistrict | Tiberias | |
| Date of depopulation | May, 1948[4] | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 4,229 dunams (4.229 km2 or 1.633 sq mi) | |
| Population (1945) | ||
| • Total | 210[2][3] | |
| Current Localities | Hukok[5] | |
Yaquq (
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948. It was located 12.5 km north of Tiberias and was built at the site of the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq.[6]
History
The site shows signs of early Canaanite settlement, and held by scholars to be the biblical Huqoq, known in Roman times as Hucuca.[7][8][9] The earliest mention of the name Yaquq is in the text Signs of the Tomb Inscription by Rabbi Jacob, emissary of the Yeshiva of Rabbi Jehiel of Paris (before 1257 CE).[10]
Ottoman era
In the 1596
olives, goats, beehives, and a press which was either used for processing grapes or olives; a total of 5,186 akçe. 1/24 of the revenue went to a waqf.[11][12]
In 1838, Yaquq was noted as a Muslim village in the Esh-Shagur district, located between
In 1875
Muslim inhabitants, surrounded by arable land. There were many cisterns in the area, and there was a "good spring" there.[15]
A population list from about 1887 showed that Yaquq had 105 inhabitants; all Muslim.[16]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yaquq wa Mawasi had a population of 294; all Muslims,[17] decreasing in the 1931 census to 153; still all Muslims, in a total of 28 houses.[18]
In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 210 Muslims,[2] and the total land area was 8,507 dunams.[3][19] Of this, 1,010 dunams were used for cereals, 24 dunams irrigated or used for orchards,[20][21] while 13 dunams were built-up (urban) area.[22]
A kibbutz using the old Biblical name of Hukok was established near the site on 11 July 1945.[23]
1948, aftermath
Following its depopulation in May 1948, the village was used as a training site for the
Lake Tiberias to the central coastal plains.[21]
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 138
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
- ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 73
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #73. Gives cause of depopulation as "?"
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 547
- ^ Ishtori Haparchi, Kaftor wa-Ferach vol. 2, (3rd edition, published by ed. Avraham Yosef Havatzelet), chapter 11, Jerusalem 2007, p. 54 (note 24) (Hebrew)
- Kitchener (1881), SWP I, p.420
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.546
- ^ Leibner (2009), p. 151
- ^ Lissovsky, Nurit (2008). "Hukkok, Yaquq and Habakkuk's Tomb: Changes over Time and Space" Palestine Exploration Quarterly 140 (2): 103–118.
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 177. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 546
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, 2nd appendix, p. 133
- ^ Guerin, 1880, p. 354 ff
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 364. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 547
- ^ Schumacher, 1888, p. 174
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 85
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.546
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 123
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p.547
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 173
- ^ Ein Hokuk and the story of Habakkuk Ynetnews, 21 March 2007
- ^ Magness 2012.
Bibliography
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Leibner, Uzi (2009). Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee: An Archaeological Survey of the Eastern Galilee. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. OCLC 851335357.
- Magness, J. (2012-03-29). "Huqoq - 2011 Preliminary Report" (124). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Magness, J.; Kisilevitz, Shua; Grey, Matthew; Spigel, Chad; Coussens, Brian (2013-08-26). "Huqoq - 2012 Preliminary Report" (125). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Magness, J.; Kisilevitz, Shua; Grey, Matthew; Spigel, Chad; Coussens, Brian; Britt, Karen (2014-11-10). "Huqoq - 2013 Preliminary Report" (126). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Magness, J.: “Samson in the Synagogue,” Biblical Archaeology Review 39.1 (2013), pp. 32–39, 66–67.
- Magness, J.: October 2013, Scholar’s Update: New Mosaics from the Huqoq Synagogue, BAS LIBRARY
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
- Schumacher, G. (1888). "Population list of the Liwa of Akka". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 20: 169–191.
External links
- Welcome To Yaquq
- Yaquq, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Yaquq at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
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