Makr (المكر)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

Makr (المكر)

Place Description

A historic Palestinian village in the Acre subdistrict, situated on the edge of the coastal plain east of Acre and surrounded by arable land and olive groves. Its agricultural landscape was dominated by cereal cultivation, supplemented by irrigated and plantation crops, olives, and citrus; 1945 statistics record 7,202 dunums of cereals, 730 dunums of irrigated and plantation land, 305 dunums of olives, and 96 dunums of citrus. After 1948, the village formed part of the Jadeidi-Makr locality.