Kuwaykat
Kuwaykat, also spelled Kuweikat, Kweikat or Kuwaikat, was a Palestinian village located 9 km northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in 1948.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruin
- Description: depopulated village in mandatory Palestine
- Also known as: “Kuweikat”, “Kuweikāt”, and “Kweikat”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include El Ghabisiya and El Mona Garden.
El Ghabisiya
Ruins
Photo: Wael.Othman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Ghabisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in northern Palestine, 16 km north-east of Acre in present-day Israel. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and remains deserted. El Ghabisiya is situated 4 km north of Kuwaykat.
El Mona Garden
Photo: Nirvadel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
El Mona Garden is situated 3½ km southeast of Kuwaykat.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beit HaEmek and Oshrat.
Beit HaEmek
Village
Photo: Almog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit HaEmek is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the western Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. As of 2023 it had a population of 770.
Oshrat
Village
Oshrat is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Western Galilee to the south-east of Nahariya and just north of Kafr Yasif, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council.
Amka
Village
Amka, also Amqa, is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's Northern District, near Acre. The moshav, located in the vicinity of Amqa, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, was founded by Yemenite Jews in 1949.
Kuwaykat
- Categories: village, former settlement, depopulated Palestinian village, human settlement, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kuwaykat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كويكات”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كويكات”
- French: “Kuwaykat”
- French: “Kuweikat, Kweikat, Kuwaikat”
- Hebrew: “כוויכאת”
- Hebrew: “כויכאת”
- Indonesian: “Kuwaykat”
- Polish: “Kuwajkat”
- Swedish: “Kuwaykat”
- Urdu: “کویکات”
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