Aqir

Aqir
Akir, Akkur
Palestinian house in Aqir, post 1948
Palestinian house in Aqir, post 1948
Etymology: Barren[1]
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Aqir is located in Mandatory Palestine
Aqir
Aqir
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°51′34″N 34°49′15″E / 31.85944°N 34.82083°E / 31.85944; 34.82083
Palestine grid133/140
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulation6 (??) May 1948[4]
Area
 • Total11,322 dunams (11.322 km2 or 4.371 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total2,480[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesKiryat Ekron,[5] Mazkeret Batya[5] Ganei Yohanan[5]

Aqir, also spelt Akir and Akkur, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 9 km southwest of Ramla and 1 km north of Wadi al-Nasufiyya[6] (today called Nahal Ekron). It was depopulated and demolished and replaced by Kiryat Ekron.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 265
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 66 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #252. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 360
  6. ^ Khalidi, 1990, p. 359