Yarka
Yarka
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| • Also spelled | Yirka (unofficial) | |
Yarka municipality
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 Yarka
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| Coordinates: 32°57′14.39″N 35°12′44.16″E / 32.9539972°N 35.2122667°ECoordinates: 32°57′14.39″N 35°12′44.16″E / 32.9539972°N 35.2122667°E | ||
| Grid position | 170/261 PAL | |
| District | Northern | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Local council | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 15,564 dunams (15.564 km2 or 6.009 sq mi) | |
| Population (2015) | ||
| • Total | 16,244 | |
Yarka (Hebrew: יִרְכָּא, Arabic: يركا) is a Druze village and local council in the Northern District of Israel. Located northeast of Acre, in 2015 it had a population of 16,244.
Yarka is an ancient village site, where old columns and cisterns have been found. Clermont-Ganneau found a Greek inscription here dating from the Christian era. In the Crusader era, Yarka was known under the name of Arket. In 1220 Joscelin III´s daughter Beatrix de Courtenay and her husband Otto von Botenlauben, Count of Henneberg, sold their land, including Arket, to the Teutonic Knights.
In 1517, Yarka was with the rest of Palestine incorporated into the Ottoman Empire after it was captured from the Mamluks, and by 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the Nahiya of Akka of the Liwa of Safad. It had a population of 174 Muslim households and 24 bachelors and paid taxes on an olive press.
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