Yarda, Safad
Yarda
ياردا | |
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Village | |
Etymology: Kh. Wakkâs, the ruin of the man with a broken neck[1] Kh. Lôzîyeh, the ruin of the almond tree[2] | |
Mishmar ha-Yarden[5] |
Yarda was a
Etymology
The name Yarda is Aramaic, and means 'the water spring'.[6]
History
Khirbat Waqqas was located west-northwest of Yarda, and is recognised as the place the
Yarda itself was located at a place called Kh el Loziyeh in the late Ottoman era. In 1881, the SWP found here: "Caves and ruined cattle sheds".[9]
British Mandate era
In the
In the 1945 statistics, the population was 20 Muslims,[3] who owned 1,367 dunams of land.[4] Of this, 1,359 dunams were used for cereals,[11] while 8 dunams were classified as un-cultivable area.[12]
Post 1948
After Yarda became depopulated,
In 1992 the village site was described: "The truncated walls of some houses still stand, as well as those of a khan, or caravansary. The site is strewn with stones from crumbled houses. A portion of the land is used as pasture."[13]
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 86
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 84
- ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, pp. 09, 11
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69
- ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 504
- ^ Marom, Roy; Zadok, Ran (2023). "Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan's Endowment Deed (1552)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 139 (2).
- ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 452; as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 248
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 248
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 242
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 111
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 168
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 504-505
Bibliography
- 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.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Grootkerk, Salomon E. (2000). Ancient sites in Galilee: a toponymic gazetteer (Illustrated ed.). BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-11535-4. (p. 122)
- Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. 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.
- ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- 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.
External links
- Welcome to Yarda
- Yarda, Zochrot
- Yarda, Villages of Palestine
- Survey of Western Palestine, map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Yarda, at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center