Aqir, the Glossary
Aqir, also spelt Akir and Akkur, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 9 km southwest of Ramla and 1 km north of Wadi al-NasufiyyaKhalidi, 1990, p. 359 (today called Nahal Ekron).[1]
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46 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Adobe, Al-Maqdisi, Byzantine Empire, Crocker & Brewster, Defter, Districts of Mandatory Palestine, Edward Robinson (scholar), Egyptians, Ekron, Ganei Yohanan, Geopolitical ontology, Givati Brigade, Institute for Palestine Studies, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Kiryat Ekron, Leo Aryeh Mayer, Liwa (Arabic), Mandatory Palestine, Mazkeret Batya, Mecca, Mihrab, Mosque, Nahiyah, Naskh (script), Operation Barak, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Exploration Fund, Palestine grid, Palestinians, PEF Survey of Palestine, Ramla, Ramle Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine, Roman Empire, Tel Nof Airbase, Victor Guérin, Village Statistics, 1945, Walid Khalidi, Washington, D.C., Well, Yaqut al-Hamawi, Yishuv, Zochrot, 1922 census of Palestine, 1931 census of Palestine, 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine.
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Adobe
Adobe is a building material made from earth and organic materials.
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Al-Maqdisi
Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr (translit; 991), commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi (translit) or al-Muqaddasī (ٱلْمُقَدَّسِي) was a medieval Palestinian Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions), as well as author of the book, Description of Syria (Including Palestine).
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Crocker & Brewster
Crocker & Brewster (1818–1876) was a leading publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts, during its 58-year existence.
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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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Edward Robinson (scholar)
Edward Robinson (April 10, 1794 – January 27, 1863) was an American biblical scholar known for his magnum opus, Biblical Researches in Palestine, the first major work in Biblical Geography and Biblical Archaeology, which earned him the epithets "Father of Biblical Geography" and "Founder of Modern Palestinology." He studied in the United States and Germany, a center of biblical scholarship and exploration of the Bible as history.
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Egyptians
Egyptians (translit,; translit,; remenkhēmi) are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt.
Ekron
Ekron (Philistine: 𐤏𐤒𐤓𐤍 *ʿAqārān, translit, عقرون), in the Hellenistic period known as Accaron (Akkarōn) was a Philistine city, one of the five cities of the Philistine Pentapolis, located in present-day Israel.
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Ganei Yohanan
Ganei Yohanan (Yohanan Gardens) is a moshav in central Israel.
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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Givati Brigade
The 84th "Givati" Brigade ("Hill Brigade" or "Highland Brigade") is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade formed in 1947.
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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Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center (مركز خليل السكاكيني الثقافي) is a leading Palestinian arts and culture organization that aims to create a pluralistic, critical liberating culture through research, query, and participation, and that provides an open space for the community to produce vibrant and liberating cultural content.
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Kiryat Ekron
Kiryat Ekron or Qiryath Eqron (קִרְיַת עֶקְרוֹן) is a town located on the coastal plain in the Central District of Israel.
Leo Aryeh Mayer
Leo Aryeh Mayer OBE (ליאון אריה מאיר, 12 January 1895 – 6 April 1959), was an Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Liwa (Arabic)
Liwa (لواء,, "ensign" or "banner") has developed various meanings in Arabic.
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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Mazkeret Batya
Mazkeret Batya (מַזְכֶּרֶת בַּתְיָה) (lit. "Batya Memorial") is a local council in central Israel located southeast of Rehovot and from Tel Aviv.
Mecca
Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.
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Mihrab
Mihrab (محراب,, pl. محاريب) is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying.
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Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
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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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Naskh (script)
Naskh is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy.
Operation Barak
Operation Barak (מבצע ברק, Mivtza Barak, lit. Operation Lightning) was a Haganah offensive launched just before the end of the British Mandate in Palestine.
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.
Palestine Exploration Fund
The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London.
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Palestine grid
The Palestine grid was the geographic coordinate system used by the Survey Department of Palestine.
Palestinians
Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.
PEF Survey of Palestine
The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the completed Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the soon abandoned Survey of Eastern Palestine.
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Ramla
Ramla or Ramle (רַמְלָה, Ramlā; الرملة, ar-Ramleh) is a city in the Central District of Israel. Aqir and Ramla are Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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Ramle Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
The Ramle Subdistrict was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. Aqir and Ramle Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine are district of Ramla.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Tel Nof Airbase
Tel Nof Airbase (בָּסִיס חֵיל-הַאֲוִויר תֵּל נוֹף, English: Lookout hill), also known as Air Force Base 8, is the oldest and main base of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) located 5 km south of Rehovot, Israel.
Victor Guérin
Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 September 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist.
Village Statistics, 1945
Village Statistics, 1945 was a joint survey work prepared by the Government Office of Statistics and the Department of Lands of the British Mandate Government for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine which acted in early 1946.
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Walid Khalidi
Walid Khalidi (وليد خالدي, born 1925) is a Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
Well
A well is an excavation or structure created in the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water.
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Yaqut al-Hamawi
Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) (ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th–13th centuries).
Yishuv
Yishuv (lit), HaYishuv HaIvri (Hebrew settlement), or HaYishuv HaYehudi Be'Eretz Yisra'el denotes the body of Jewish residents in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
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Zochrot
Zochrot (זוכרות; "Remembering"; ذاكرات; "Memories") is an Israeli nonprofit organization founded in 2002.
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1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
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1931 census of Palestine
The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine.
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1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqir
Also known as 'Aqir, Akir (village), .