Yaquq
ياقوق | |
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Village | |
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| Etymology: from personal name[1] | |
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  Yaquq Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°53′5″N 35°28′44″E / 32.88472°N 35.47889°E | |
| Palestine grid | 195/254 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Tiberias |
| Date of depopulation | May, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 4,229 dunams (4.229 km2 or 1.633 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 210[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Hukok[5] |
Yaquq (Arabic: ياقوق) was a Palestinian Arab village, which was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948. It was located 12.5 km north of Tiberias and was built at the site of the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq.[6]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 138
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 73
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #73. Gives cause of depopulation as "?"
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 547
- ^ Ishtori Haparchi, Kaftor wa-Ferach vol. 2, (3rd edition, published by ed. Avraham Yosef Havatzelet), chapter 11, Jerusalem 2007, p. 54 (note 24) (Hebrew)