Yaquq
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  Yaquq | |
| Arabic | ياقوق |
| Name meaning | from personal name[1] |
| Subdistrict | Tiberias |
| Coordinates | 32°53′5″N 35°28′44″E / 32.88472°N 35.47889°ECoordinates: 32°53′5″N 35°28′44″E / 32.88472°N 35.47889°E |
| Palestine grid | 195/254 |
| Population | 210[2] (1945) |
| Area | 4,229[2] dunams |
| Date of depopulation | May, 1948[3] |
| Current localities | Hukok[4] |
Yaquq (Arabic: ياقوق) was a Palestinian Arab village, which was depopulated during the 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 Huqoq.
History
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).[5]
Ottoman era
In 1596, Yaquq was a part of the Ottoman nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jira under the liwa' ("district") of Safad, with a population of 396 Muslims. It paid taxes on a number of crops and produce, including wheat, barley and olives, goats, beehives, and a press which was either used for processing grapes or olives.[6][7]
In 1875 Victor Guérin described the village as having about 20 stone houses.[8] In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as having about 200 Muslim inhabitants, surrounded by arable land. There were many cisterns in the area, and there was a "good spring" there.[9]
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,[10] decreasing in the 1931 census to 153; still all Muslims, in a total of 28 houses.[11]
In 1945 it had a population of 210 Arabs, and the total land area was 8,507 dunams.[2][12] In 1944/45 the village had 1,010 dunams of land used for cereals, 24 dunams irrigated or used for orchards,[13][14] while 13 dunams were built-up (urban) area.[15]
A kibbutz using the old Biblical name of Hukok was established near the site on 11 July 1945.[16]
1948, aftermath
Following its depopulation in May 1948, the village was used as a training site for the Israeli army until it was bulldozed in 1968.[17] Khalidi described the place in 1992:
Stone rubble covers the entire site. There is one palm tree in the center and an olive grove on the edge. Part of the surrounding land is cultivated by Israelis, while the remainder is used as a grazing area. A canal that passes to the west is part of the Israeli National Water Carrier, the water project that carries water from Lake Tiberias to the central coastal plains.[14]
References
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 138
- 1 2 3 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
- ↑ 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 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ↑ Guerin, 1880, p. 354 ff
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 364. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 547
- ↑ 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
- 1 2 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, 2011, "Huqoq - Preliminary Report"
Bibliography
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- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- 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.
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Magness, Jodi (2012-03-29). "Huqoq - 2011 Preliminary Report" (124). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
- Magness, Jodi; et. al. (2013-08-26). "Huqoq - 2012 Preliminary Report" (125). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
- Magness, Jodi; et. al. (2014-11-10). "Huqoq - 2013 Preliminary Report" (126). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
- Magness, Jodi: “Samson in the Synagogue,” Biblical Archaeology Review 39.1 (2013), pp. 32–39, 66-67.
- Magness, Jodi: 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.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. 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, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
External links
- Welcome To Yaquq
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Yaquq at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
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