Yirka
Yirka (Hebrew: יִרְכָּא, Arabic: يركا) is an Israeli Druze toun in Israel's North Destrict, northeast o Acre.
Yirka
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| Hebrew transcription(s) | |
| • Forby spelt | Yarka (unoffeecial) |
 Entrance tae Yirka | |
  Yirka | |
| Coordinates: 32°57′14.39″N 35°12′44.16″E / 32.9539972°N 35.2122667°ECoordinates: 32°57′14.39″N 35°12′44.16″E / 32.9539972°N 35.2122667°E | |
| Destrict | Northren |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Local cooncil |
| Area | |
| • Total | 15.564 km2 (6.009 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 13,000 |
| • Density | 840/km2 (2,200/sq mi) |
History
eeditIn 1596, Yirka appeared in Ottoman tax registers as bein in the Nahiya o Akka o the Liwa o Safad. It haed a population o 174 Muslim hoosehaulds an 24 bachelors an peyed taxes on an olive press.[1]
A visitor tae the Yirka in the late nineteent century wrote that "cut stanes o auncient appearance hae been uised in biggin the modren hooses. [..] Aboot a hunder cisterns cut in rock, a hauf o which are nae langer uised, an the ither hauf serve for the wants o the fowk, reveal the existence in this place o an auncient locality o some importance."[2] In the Survey o Wastren Palestine, Yarka is describit as a well-biggit stane veelage inhabitit bi 400 Druze who grew olives an figs.[3] The tomb o Sheikh Abu Saraya Ghanem, a Druze releegious scholar is locatit in Yarka.
Economy
eeditAne o the lairgest factories in the Middle East, a steel mill biggit an awned bi the Kadmani faimily, is locatit in Yarka. My Baby, wi 11,000 metres o retail space, is Israel's lairgest store for childer's an baby's supplies. The store haes an annual turnower o NIS 100 million.[4]
References
eedit- ↑ Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth and Kamal Abdulfattah (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. p. 191.
- ↑ Guérin, 1880, p.16-17, as translated and cited by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p.193
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p.148
- ↑ Israel's only American-style baby store, in the heart of a Druze village
Bibliografie
eedit- Conder, Claude Reignier an H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. Lunnon:Committee o the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 1 (p. 152)
- Guérin, M. V. (1880): Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. ptie. Galilée (t. 1-2), Volume 3. Pairt 2. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale
- Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth and Kamal Abdulfattah (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. (p191, P16)
- (1881, 1882): Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund Volume: 13-14 (p.37-38)
Freemit airtins
eedit- Druze Archived 2016-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org