Kuwaykat, the Glossary
Kuwaykat (كويكات), also spelled Kuweikat, Kweikat or Kuwaikat, was a Palestinian village located 9 km northeast of Acre.[1]
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49 relations: Abu Snan, Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine, Acre, Israel, Ashlar, Beit HaEmek, Benny Morris, Bourj el-Barajneh, British Army, Cambridge University Press, Caravanserai, Carmeli Brigade, Cereal, Crusades, Denys Pringle, Districts of Mandatory Palestine, Druze, Falastin, French invasion of Egypt and Syria, Genoa, Geopolitical ontology, Institute for Palestine Studies, Israel Exploration Journal, Kafr Yasif, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Lebanon, List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war, List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict, Mandatory Palestine, Mosque, Muslims, Olive, Operation Dekel, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Exploration Fund, Palestine grid, Palestinians, PEF Survey of Palestine, Pierre Jacotin, Victor Guérin, Village Statistics, 1945, Walid Khalidi, Washington, D.C., Yishuv, Zochrot, 1922 census of Palestine, 1931 census of Palestine, 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, 1948 Arab–Israeli War, 7th Armored Brigade (Israel).
- District of Acre
Abu Snan
Abu Snan is an Arab village and locality in the Galilee,, part of the Northern District of Israel.
Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
The Acre Subdistrict (قضاء عكا, Qadaa Akka; נפת עכו, Nefat Akko) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. Kuwaykat 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.
Ashlar
Ashlar is a cut and dressed stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape.
Beit HaEmek
Beit HaEmek (House of the Valley) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.
Benny Morris
Benny Morris (בני מוריס; born 8 December 1948) is an Israeli historian.
Bourj el-Barajneh
Bourj el-Barajneh (lit) is a municipality located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, in Lebanon.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Caravanserai
A caravanserai (or caravansary) was a roadside inn where travelers (caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey.
Carmeli Brigade
2nd "Carmeli" Brigade (Hebrew: חטיבת כרמלי, Hativat Carmeli, former 165th Brigade) is a reserve infantry brigade of the Israel Defense Forces, part of the Northern Command.
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Cereal
A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.
Denys Pringle
Reginald Denys Pringle (born 20 September 1951) is a British archaeologist and medievalist.
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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.
Falastin
Falastin (فلسطين; Palestine) was an Arabic-language Palestinian newspaper.
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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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
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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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 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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Kafr Yasif
Kafr Yasif (كفر ياسيف, Kufr Yaseef; כַּפְר יָסִיף) is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel.
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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Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
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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List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict
Below is a list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the Arab–Israeli conflict.
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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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Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
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.
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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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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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.
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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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Pierre Jacotin
Pierre Jacotin (1765–1827) was the director of the survey for the Carte de l'Égypte (Description de l'Égypte), the first triangulation-based map of Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
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Victor Guérin
Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 September 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Zochrot
Zochrot (זוכרות; "Remembering"; ذاكرات; "Memories") is an Israeli nonprofit organization founded in 2002.
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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1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
A popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration of the Palestine Mandate, later known as the Great Revolt, the Great Palestinian Revolt, or the Palestinian Revolution, lasted from 1936 until 1939.
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1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war.
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7th Armored Brigade (Israel)
The 7th "Saar me-Golan" Armored Brigade (חטיבה שבע, Hativa Sheva) is a military formation of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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See also
District of Acre
- Achziv
- Acre Sanjak
- Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
- Al-Bassa
- Al-Birwa
- Al-Damun
- Al-Ghabisiyya
- Al-Kabri
- Al-Manshiyya, Acre
- Al-Nabi Rubin, Acre
- Al-Nahr
- Al-Ruways
- Al-Sumayriyya
- Al-Tall, Acre
- Amka
- Arab al-Samniyya
- Dayr al-Qassi
- Iqrit
- Kafr 'Inan
- Khirbat Iribbin
- Khirbat Jiddin
- Kuwaykat
- Mi'ar
- Suhmata
- Suruh
- Tarbikha
- Umm al-Faraj
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaykat
Also known as Kuwaikat, Kuweikat, Kweikat.