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Amka, the Glossary

Amka, also known in Arabic as Amqa (عمقا), is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's Northern District, near Acre.^[1]

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District of Acre
Mateh Asher Regional Council
Yemenite Jews in Israel

Acre Sanjak

The Sanjak of Acre (سنجق عكا; Akka Sancağı), often referred as Late Ottoman Galilee, was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day northern Israel. Amka and Acre Sanjak are district of Acre.

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Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine

The Acre Subdistrict (قضاء عكا, Qadaa Akka; נפת עכו, Nefat Akko) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. Amka and Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine are district of Acre.

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Acre, Israel

Acre, known locally as Akko (עַכּוֹ) and Akka (عكّا), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.

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Al-Ghabisiyya

Al-Ghabisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in northern Palestine, 16 km north-east of Acre in present-day Israel. Amka and al-Ghabisiyya are district of Acre.

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Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.

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Beatrix de Courtenay

Beatrix de Courtenay (died after 1245) was a Titular Countess of Edessa and Countess consort of Henneberg as the wife of Otto von Botenlauben.

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Benny Morris

Benny Morris (בני מוריס; born 8 December 1948) is an Israeli historian.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Château Pèlerin

Château Pèlerin (Old French: Chastel Pelerin; translation), also known as Atlit and Magdiel, is a Crusader fortress and fortified town located about north of the modern Israeli town of Atlit on the northern coast of Israel, about south of Haifa. Amka and Château Pèlerin are Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

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Cistern

A cistern is a space excavated in bedrock or soil designed for catching and storing water.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.

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Defter

A defter was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.

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Districts of Mandatory Palestine

The districts and sub-districts of Mandatory Palestine formed the first and second levels of administrative division and existed through the whole era of Mandatory Palestine, namely from 1920 to 1948.

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Druze

The Druze (دَرْزِيّ, or دُرْزِيّ, rtl), who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn (lit. 'the monotheists' or 'the unitarians'), are an Arab and Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from West Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion whose main tenets assert the unity of God, reincarnation, and the eternity of the soul.

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Dutch people

The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.

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Edward Henry Palmer

Edward Henry Palmer (7 August 184010 August 1882), known as E. H. Palmer, was an English orientalist and explorer.

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Elias Khoury

Elias Khoury (إلياس خوري; born 12 July 1948) is a Lebanese novelist and public intellectual.

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French invasion of Egypt and Syria

The French invasion of Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) was an invasion and occupation of the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, by forces of the French First Republic led by Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Galilee

Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.

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Geopolitical ontology

The FAO geopolitical ontology is an ontology developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to describe, manage and exchange data related to geopolitical entities such as countries, territories, regions and other similar areas.

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Hajj

Hajj (translit; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.

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House of Henneberg

The House of Henneberg was a medieval German comital family (Grafen) which from the 11th century onwards held large territories in the Duchy of Franconia.

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Hudna

A hudna (from the Arabic هدنة meaning "calm" or "quiet") is a truce or armistice.

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Institute for Palestine Studies

The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) is the oldest independent nonprofit public service research institute in the Arab world.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym, is the national military of the State of Israel.

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Israel Exploration Journal

The Israel Exploration Journal is a biannual academic journal which has been published by the Israel Exploration Society since 1950.

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Jazzar Pasha

Ahmed Pasha al-Jazzar (أحمد باشا الجزّار, c. 1720–30s7 May 1804) was the Acre-based Ottoman governor of Sidon Eyalet from 1776 until his death in 1804 and the simultaneous governor of Damascus Eyalet in 1785–1786, 1790–1795, 1798–1799, and 1803–1804.

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Joscelin III

Joscelin III (1139 – after 1190) was the titular count of Edessa, who during his lifetime managed to amass enough land to establish a lordship in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war

Clickable map of the depopulated locations During the 1947–1949 Palestine war, or the Nakba, around 400 Palestinian Arab towns and villages were forcibly depopulated, with a majority being destroyed and left uninhabitable.

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Liwa (Arabic)

Liwa (لواء,, "ensign" or "banner") has developed various meanings in Arabic.

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Mamluk

Mamluk or Mamaluk (mamlūk (singular), مماليك, mamālīk (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were assigned high-ranking military and administrative duties, serving the ruling Arab and Ottoman dynasties in the Muslim world.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

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Mateh Asher Regional Council

The Mateh Asher Regional Council (מועצה אזורית מטה אשר, Mo'atza Azorit Mateh Asher) is a regional council in the western Galilee of northern Israel.

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Mishnah

The Mishnah or the Mishna (מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb shanah, or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah.

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Moshav

A moshav (מוֹשָׁב, plural מוֹשָׁבִים, "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1914, during what is known as the second wave of ''aliyah''. Amka and moshav are Moshavim.

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Mosque

A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Nahiyah

A nāḥiyah (نَاحِيَة, plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns.

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Northern District (Israel)

The Northern District (translit; translit) is one of Israel's six administrative districts.

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Olive

The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin.

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Operation Dekel

Operation Dekel (Operation Palm Tree), was the largest offensive by Israeli forces in the north of Palestine after the first truce of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

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Otto von Botenlauben

Otto von Botenlauben or Botenlouben (1177, Henneberg – before 1245, near Bad Kissingen), the Count of Henneberg from 1206, was a German minnesinger, Crusader and monastic founder.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amka

Also known as 'Amqa, Al-Amqa, Amqa, Beth-emek, `Amqa, ʻAmqa.

, Palestinians, Pierre Jacotin, Present absentee, Qalawun, Roman Empire, Safed, Salim, Nablus, Sheikh, Sufism, Teutonic Order, Tosefta, Tribe of Asher, Village Statistics, 1945, Walid Khalidi, Washington, D.C., West Bank, Wheat, Yemenite Jews, Yishuv, Zahir al-Umar, Zochrot, 1922 census of Palestine, 1931 census of Palestine, 1948 Arab–Israeli War, 7th Armored Brigade (Israel).

Amka, the Glossary

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See also

District of Acre

Mateh Asher Regional Council

Yemenite Jews in Israel

References