'Akbara
Sign in to saveAkbara () is an Arab village in the Israeli municipality of Safed, which included in 2010 more than 200 families. It is 2.5 km south of Safed City. The village was rebuilt in 1977, close to the old village destroyed in 1948 during the 1947–1949 Palestine war.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- 'Akbara
- Settlement.native_name
- عكبرة
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Akbara ap 002.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Modern village of Akbara
- Settlement.etymology
- possibly from male jerboa
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.map_caption
- A series of historical maps of the area around 'Akbara (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Safad Subdistrict
- Image
- PikiWiki Israel 4421 Transport in Israel.jpg
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Article
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- Location
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- Second Temple
- Talmud
- Caliphates and Crusaders
- Ottoman Empire
- British Mandate
- Israel
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Akbara () is an Arab village in the Israeli municipality of Safed, which included in 2010 more than 200 families. It is 2.5 km south of Safed City. The village was rebuilt in 1977, close to the old village destroyed in 1948 during the 1947–1949 Palestine war.
== Location == The village of 'Akbara was situated 2.5 km south of Safad, along the two sides of a deep wadi that ran north–south. Southeast of the village lay ''Khirbet al-'Uqeiba, identified as the Roman village Achabare, or Acchabaron. This khirba'' was a populated village as late as 1904.