Amka
Sign in to saveAmka (), also Amqa (), is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's Northern District, near Acre. The moshav, located in the vicinity of Amqa, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, was founded by Yemenite Jews in 1949. In , its population was .
Key facts
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
- Israel village.name
- Amka
- Israel village.image
- File:Amka December 2015.jpg
- Israel village.foundation
- Bronze age (Beth ha-Emek)Classic era (Kfar Amka)1949 (modern Moshav)
- Israel village.founded_by
- Yemenite Jews
- Israel village.region
- Western Galilee
- Israel village.district
- north
- Israel village.council
- Matte Asher
- Israel village.pushpin_map
- Israel northwest#Israel
- Israel village.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Israel village.palgrid
- 166/265
- Israel village.ITMgrid
- 215400/764900
- Settlement.name
- Amqa
- Settlement.native_name
- عمقا
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- 'Amqa
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_caption
- The 19th-century mosque of Amqa
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Amka (), also Amqa (), is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's Northern District, near Acre. The moshav, located in the vicinity of Amqa, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, was founded by Yemenite Jews in 1949. In , its population was .
==Etymology== Edward Henry Palmer thought that the name Amka derived from the Arabic word for “deep”, but according to Ringgren, it preserves the name of Beth Ha-Emek, a city mentioned in as part of the allotment of the Tribe of Asher.
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