Barqusya

Barqusya
بركوسيا
برقوسية
Etymology: “variegated”[1]
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Barqusya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Barqusya
Barqusya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°40′46″N 34°49′24″E / 31.67944°N 34.82333°E / 31.67944; 34.82333
Palestine grid133/120
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictHebron
Date of depopulationNot known[4]
Area
 • Total3,216 dunams (3.216 km2 or 1.242 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total330[2][3]

Barqusya (also: Barkusya, Arabic: بركوسيا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict, depopulated in the 1948 Palestine War. It was located 31 km northwest of Hebron.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 266
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 23
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #291. Morris gives both cause and date for depopulation as "Not known"