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Saqiya (, the Arabic name of a mechanical water lifting device) was a village in Palestine (Jaffa district) away from Jaffa, depopulated in 1948.

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Locality
אור יהודה
Region
מחוז תל אביב
Country
ישראל
Population
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  • Location
  • Etymology
  • History
  • Ottoman era
  • British Mandate era
  • 1948 war and aftermath
  • See also
  • Footnotes
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Saqiya (, the Arabic name of a mechanical water lifting device) was a village in Palestine (Jaffa district) away from Jaffa, depopulated in 1948.

==Location== The village was located east of Jaffa, above sea level, on uneven land in the central coastal plain. A number of paved roads passing through or near the village allowed them to easy access to Ludd and Jaffa, Tel Aviv, as well as the villages adjacent to it.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saqiya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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