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Amka

Amka, also Amqa, is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's , 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.
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  • Type: Village with 644 residents
  • Description: village in Palestine
  • Also known as: “‘Amqah”, “`Amqa”, and “Amqa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kuweikat and El Ghabisiya.

Ruins
Photo: Avi1111, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kuwaykat, also spelled , Kweikat or Kuwaikat, was a Palestinian village located 9 km northeast of . It was depopulated in 1948.

Ruins
Photo: Wael.Othman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Ghabisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in northern Palestine, 16 km north-east of in present-day . It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and remains deserted. is situated 2½ km northwest of Amka.

Archaeological site
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, or Tell al-Qahweh, is an archaeological tell containing one of the largest Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palaces in , and the largest such palace excavated as of 2014. is situated 4 km northwest of Amka.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oshrat and Beit HaEmek.

Village
is a community settlement in northern . Located in the Western Galilee to the south-east of and just north of , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council.

Village
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is a kibbutz in northern . Located in the western Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. As of 2023 it had a population of 770.

Village
Photo: Almog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sheikh Dannun; also transliterated as and Sheikh Danon) is an Arab village located in 's . Since 1948, it has been made up of two old villages – Shaykh Danun and Shaykh Dawud – which were merged, and are now jointly referred to as Sheikh Dannun.

Amka

Latitude
32.98006° or 32° 58′ 48″ north
Longitude
35.16311° or 35° 9′ 47″ east
Population
644
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Open location code
8G4QX5J7+26
Open­Street­Map ID
way 687047033
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
295690
Wiki­data ID
Q2914984
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Amka” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “عمقا”
  • Arabic: “عمكا”
  • Czech: “Amka”
  • Czech: “Amqa”
  • Danish: “Amqa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عمقا”
  • French: “Amka”
  • Hebrew: “‘Amqa”
  • Hebrew: “עמקה”
  • Indonesian: “Amqa”
  • Irish: “Amka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amka”
  • Persian: “عمقا”
  • Polish: “Al-Amka”
  • Polish: “Amka”
  • Swedish: “Amqa”
  • Turkish: “Amka”
  • Urdu: “عمقا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Amka”. Photo: Rahum32, CC BY 3.0.