Kfar Kama

Kfar Kama (Hebrew: כְּפַר כַּמָא‬; Arabic: كفر كما‎; Adyghe: Кфар Кама) is a toun locatit in the lawer Galilee, Israel, wi a population o 2,900, lairgely Circassian.

Kfar Kama כְּפַר כַּמָא‎ كفر كما‎
Hebrew transcription(s)
• ISO 259	Kpar Kamaˀ
Kfar Kama
Coordinates: 32°43′19″N 35°26′27″E
Destrict	Northren
Foondit	1876
Govrenment
• Teep	Local cooncil (frae 1950)
Area
• Total	8.854 km2 (3.419 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	3,005
• Density	340/km2 (880/sq mi)

There is airchaeological evidence that the aurie wis inhabitit frae the 6t century. The current veelage wis foondit in 1876 bi Circassians who wur exiled frae the Caucasus bi the Roushies tae the Ottoman Empire due tae the Roushie-Circassie War.

A Center for Circassian Heritage is situatit in the veelage.

The schuil in the veelage teaches in a mixed environment o classes in Circassian, Ebreu, Arabic an Inglis leids.

Kfar Kama is ane o twa Circassian veelages in Israel. The ither ane is Rehaniya. The Circassians are Muslims, who unlike the main Israeli Arab Muslim minority, perform military service in the IDF, similar tae the Israeli Druze.

Gallery

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  The mosque in Kfar Kama.
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  The auld veelage in Kfar Kama.
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  The auld veelage in Kfar Kama.

See an aa

• Circassians in Israel
• kfar kama local cooncil
• the warld circassian heritage center