Middle East
Israel
Northern District

Kuweikat

Kuwaykat, also spelled Kuweikat, Kweikat or Kuwaikat, was a Palestinian village located 9 km northeast of . It was depopulated in 1948.
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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: depopulated village in mandatory Palestine
  • Also known as: “Kuwaykat” and “Kweikat”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include El Ghabisiya and El Mona Garden.

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 4 km north of Kuweikat.

Photo: Nirvadel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 3½ km southeast of Kuweikat.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beit HaEmek and Oshrat.

Village
Photo: Almog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
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
Photo: Rahum32, CC BY 3.0.
, 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.

Kuweikat

Latitude
32.96667° or 32° 58′ north
Longitude
35.15° or 35° 9′ east
Open location code
8G4QX582+M2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278475996
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q3545099
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Kuweikat” 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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