Yarda, Safad

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Yarda

ياردا
Village
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Etymology: Kh. Wakkâs, the ruin of the man with a broken neck [1] Kh. Lôzîyeh, the ruin of the almond tree [2]
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Yarda
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°0′27″N35°35′38″E / 33.00750°N 35.59389°E / 33.00750; 35.59389 Coordinates: 33°0′27″N35°35′38″E / 33.00750°N 35.59389°E / 33.00750; 35.59389
Palestine grid 205/268
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict Safad
Population
 (1945)
 • Total20 [3] [4]
Current Localities Ayyelet ha-Shahar [5] and Mishmar ha-Yarden [5]

Yarda was a Palestinian hamlet in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It was located 10.5 km northeast of Safad. The area is now part of Israel.

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History

Khirbat Waqqas was located west-northwest of Yarda, and is recognised as the place the Canaanites referred to as Hazor. Victor Guérin found at Kh. Waqqas in 1875: 'Near a small enclosure, in the centre of which is a broken column consecrated to a santon, are shown the remains of an edifice oriented east and west, once probably a church. It was ornamented with monolithic columns in ordinary limestone, some broken pieces of which are still lying about. Other similar fragments are found in the neighbouring houses. Here and there I remarked cut stones, which no doubt belonged to this monument. A little to the south, a hillock is also covered with ruins of houses.' [6] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found at Kh. Wakkas only cattle-sheds. [7]

Yarda itself was located at a place called Kh el Loziyeh in the late Ottoman era. In 1881, the SWP found here: "Caves and ruined cattle sheds". [8]

British Mandate era

In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yarda had a population of 13 Muslims, in a total of 3 houses. [9]

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 20 Muslims, [3] who owned 1,367 dunams of land. [4] Of this, 1,359 dunams were used for cereals, [10] while 8 dunams were classified as un-cultivable area. [11]

Post 1948

After Yarda became depopulated, Ayyelet ha-Shahar took over some of the village land, while in 1949 Mishmar ha-Yarden was also settled on village land. [5]

In 1992 the village site was described: "The truncated walls of some houses still stand, as well as those of a khan, or caravansary. The site is strewn with stones from crumbled houses. A portion of the land is used as pasture." [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 86
  2. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 84
  3. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, pp. 09, 11
  4. 1 2 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69
  5. 1 2 3 Khalidi, 1992, p. 504
  6. ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 452; as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 248
  7. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 248
  8. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 242
  9. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 111
  10. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 168
  12. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 504-505

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