Saqiya

Saqiya

ساقِية
Saqiya ساقِية
	Etymology: "The water wheel"
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Saqiya (click the buttons)
	Saqiya Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°01′44″N 34°50′35″E / 32.02889°N 34.84306°E
Palestine grid	135/159
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jaffa
Date of depopulation	25 April 1948
Area
• Total	5,850 dunams (5.85 km2 or 2.26 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,100
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Or Yehuda

Saqiya (Arabic: ساقِية, the Arabic name of a mechanical water lifting device)^[1] was a village in Palestine (Jaffa district) 8.5 kilometers (5.3 mi) away from Jaffa, depopulated in 1948.

^ ^a ^b Palmer, 1881, p. 217 See Sakia.
^ Department of Statistic, 1945, p. 28
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 53
^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #214 Also gives cause of depopulation.
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 258

Saqiya ساقِية
Etymology: "The water wheel"^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Saqiya (click the buttons)
Saqiya Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°01′44″N 34°50′35″E / 32.02889°N 34.84306°E / 32.02889; 34.84306
Palestine grid	135/159
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jaffa
Date of depopulation	25 April 1948 ^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	5,850 dunams (5.85 km² or 2.26 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,100^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Or Yehuda^[5]