Aqqur
عقور | |
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| Etymology: barren[1] | |
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  Aqqur Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°45′30″N 35°04′56″E / 31.75833°N 35.08222°E | |
| Palestine grid | 157/129 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
| Date of depopulation | July 13–14, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,522 dunams (5.522 km2 or 2.132 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 40[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Aqqur was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. Founded in the Ottoman period, it had a population of 25 in 1922 and 40 in 1945.[5] It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 13, 1948, under Operation Dani. It was located 14.5 km west of Jerusalem on the Wadi Isma'il, a tributary of the Wadi al-Sarar.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 283
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #352. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^ Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 364