Ammuqa

Ammuqa
Ammuqa
Arabic عموقه
Name meaning "deep"[1]
Also spelled Amuka, 'Amuqa
Subdistrict Safad
Coordinates 33°00′21.86″N 35°31′12.69″E / 33.0060722°N 35.5201917°E / 33.0060722; 35.5201917Coordinates: 33°00′21.86″N 35°31′12.69″E / 33.0060722°N 35.5201917°E / 33.0060722; 35.5201917
Palestine grid 198/267
Population 140[2][3] (1945)
Area 2,574 dunams
Date of depopulation 24 May 1948[4]
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities Amuka

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

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.[5]

Ottoman era

In 1517, Ammuqa was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, and by 1596 it was under the administration of the nahiyah ("subdistrict") of Jira, part of Sanjak Safad, with a population of 391. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, beehives, vineyards, and goats.[6][7]

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.[8]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Amuqa had a population of 114, all Muslims,[9] decreasing slightly in the 1931 census to 108, still all Muslims, in a total of 17 houses.[10]

By 1944/45, the village had a total of 1,164 dunums of land allocated to cereals; while 195 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.[11][12]

During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, on the 24 May 1948, Ammuqa was assaulted by the Palmach's First Battalion, headed by Yigal Allon.[13] Following the "systematic" destruction of the villages in the Hula Valley, Ammuqa was evacuated.[14]

See also

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 66
  2. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945, quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. p.69.
  3. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  4. Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village # 47. Also gives the cause of depopulation.
  5. Adler, 2004, p. 107.
  6. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p.175, quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.433.
  7. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  8. Abbasi, 2007 (Hebrew). Non-Hebrew version in The Maghreb Review, 28(1), 2003 pp. 41-59.
  9. Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 41
  10. Mills, 1932, p. 105
  11. Khalidi, 1992, p.434
  12. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118
  13. "Welcome to Ammuqa". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
  14. Morris, 2004, pp. 251–252.

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