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Barqusya
Place in Hebron, Mandatory Palestine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Barqusya (also: Barkusya, Arabic: بركوسيا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict, depopulated in the 1948 Palestine War. It was located 31 km northwest of Hebron.
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Barqusya
بركوسيا برقوسية | |
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Etymology: “variegated”[1] | |
A series of historical maps of the area around Barqusya (click the buttons) | |
Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°40′46″N 34°49′24″E | |
Palestine grid | 133/120 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Hebron |
Date of depopulation | Not known[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 3,216 dunams (3.216 km2 or 1.242 sq mi) |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 330[3][4] |
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