Barqusya
بركوسيا برقوسية | |
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| Etymology: “variegated”[1] | |
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  Barqusya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°40′46″N 34°49′24″E / 31.67944°N 34.82333°E | |
| Palestine grid | 133/120 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Hebron |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,216 dunams (3.216 km2 or 1.242 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 330[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.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 266
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 23
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #291. Morris gives both cause and date for depopulation as "Not known"