Place Name
Yirka (يركا)Place Description
A historic Palestinian village in the Acre subdistrict, situated on the western slopes of the Upper Galilee, between Kafr Yasif and Abu Sinan to the west and Dayr al-Asad to the east, with Wadi al-Majnuna to the north and Wadi al-Kwashin to the south. Its agricultural landscape included olive groves, cereals, and irrigated and plantation crops; 1945 land-use records document 5,233 dunums of olives, 5,809 dunums of cereals, and 5,747 dunums of irrigated and plantation land.Also Known As
يركا, YarkaPlace Type
VillageMap Coordinates
Latitude
32.953825Longitude
35.212743General Notes
Note Type
Cataloging NoteNote
POM_ID:77Updated By
Wafa Ghnaim