Saqiya

Saqiya
ساقِية
Etymology: "The water wheel"[1]
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Saqiya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Saqiya
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 grid135/159
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Date of depopulation25 April 1948 [4]
Area
 • Total5,850 dunams (5.85 km2 or 2.26 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total1,100[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesOr Yehuda[5]

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.

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