Yirka (Hebrew: יִרְכָּא‬, Arabic: يركا‎) is an Israeli Druze toun in Israel's North Destrict, northeast o Acre.

Yirka

  • יִרְכָּא
  • يركا
Hebrew transcription(s)
 • Forby speltYarka (unoffeecial)
Entrance tae Yirka
Entrance tae Yirka
Yirka is located in Israel
Yirka
Yirka
Coordinates: 32°57′14.39″N 35°12′44.16″E / 32.9539972°N 35.2122667°E / 32.9539972; 35.2122667Coordinates: 32°57′14.39″N 35°12′44.16″E / 32.9539972°N 35.2122667°E / 32.9539972; 35.2122667
DestrictNorthren
Govrenment
 • TeepLocal cooncil
Area
 • Total15.564 km2 (6.009 sq mi)
Population
 (2007)
 • Total13,000
 • Density840/km2 (2,200/sq mi)

History

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In 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]

 
Yarka municipality

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

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Ane 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

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  1. 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.
  2. Guérin, 1880, p.16-17, as translated and cited by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p.193
  3. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p.148
  4. Israel's only American-style baby store, in the heart of a Druze village

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