Aqir
Akir, Akkur | |
|---|---|
 Palestinian house in Aqir, post 1948 | |
| Etymology: Barren[1] | |
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  Aqir Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°51′34″N 34°49′15″E / 31.85944°N 34.82083°E | |
| Palestine grid | 133/140 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Date of depopulation | 6 (??) May 1948[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 11,322 dunams (11.322 km2 or 4.371 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 2,480[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Kiryat 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.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 265
- ^ 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
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #252. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 360
- ^ Khalidi, 1990, p. 359