Ammuqa

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Ammuqa
عموقه
Amuka, 'Amuqa
Village
Etymology: "deep" [1]
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Ammuqa
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°00′22″N35°31′13″E / 33.00611°N 35.52028°E / 33.00611; 35.52028
Palestine grid 198/267
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict Safad
Date of depopulation24 May 1948 [2]
Area
[3]
  Total2,574  dunams (2.574 km2 or 636 acres)
Population
 (1945)
  Total140 [3] [4]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities Amuka [5]

Ammuqa (also transliterated 'Amuqa and Amuka) was a Palestinian village, located five kilometres northeast of Safed.

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History

Known locally for its seven springs, Ammuqa also enjoyed renown as the site of the sepulchre of Jonathan ben Uzziel. Rabbi Samuel ben Samson, who travelled to Palestine in 1210, writes that the site was marked by "a great tree" where the local Muslim population made vows "to his glory" and gave votive offerings of oil and light. [6] [7] [8]

Ottoman era

In 1517, Ammuqa was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, and by 1596 tax-records it was under the administration of the nahiyah ("subdistrict") of Jira, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 65 households and 6 bachelors; an estimated 391 persons, all Muslim. They paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, beehives, vineyards, and goats; a total revenue of 5,585 akçe. 1/12 of the revenue went to a Muslim charitable endowment. [9] [10]

In the second half of the 19th century Algerian followers of Abdelkader El Djezairi have been defeated by the French in Algeria, and sought refuge in another part of the Ottoman Empire. They were given lands in various locations in Ottoman Syria, including Ammuqa, and the close-by Dayshum, Marus, Al-Husayniyya and Tulayl. [11] [12]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Amuqa had a population of 114, all Muslims, [13] decreasing slightly in the 1931 census to 108, still all Muslims, in a total of 17 houses. [14]

By the 1944/45 statistics, the village had a population of 140 Muslims [4] with a total land area of 2,574 dunams. [3] Of this, a total of 1,164 dunums of land was used for cereals; 195 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, [5] [15] while 30 dunams were classified as built-up (or Urban) area. [16]

1948, aftermath

During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, on the 24 May 1948, Ammuqa was assaulted by the Palmach's First Battalion, headed by Yigal Allon. [17] Following the "systematic" destruction of the villages in the Hula Valley, Ammuqa was evacuated. [18]

In 1980 Amuka was established on village land; about 1 km southeast of the village site. [5]

In 1992 the village site was described: "Nothing remains of the village but the rubble of houses; the site is overgrown with cactuses and eucalyptus, fig, and olive trees. Much of the land around the site is wooded, and some parts are cultivated by the settlement of 'Ammuqa". [5]

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References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 66
  2. Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village # 47. Also gives the cause of depopulation.
  3. 1 2 3 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945, quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine .
  4. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  5. 1 2 3 4 Khalidi, 1992, p. 434
  6. Adler, 2004, p. 107.
  7. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 205
  8. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 220
  9. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p.175, quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.433.
  10. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  11. Abbasi, 2007 (Hebrew). Non-Hebrew version in The Maghreb Review, 28(1), 2003 pp. 41-59.
  12. Guérin, 1880, pp. 439-440
  13. Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 41
  14. Mills, 1932, p. 105
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 168 Archived 2014-11-01 at the Wayback Machine
  17. "Welcome to Ammuqa". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
  18. Morris, 2004, pp. 251–252.

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