Yirka
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Yirka (Hebrew: יִרְכָּא, Arabic: يركا) is an Israeli Druze toun in Israel's North Destrict, northeast o Acre.
Yirka
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| Hebrew transcription(s) | |
| • Forby spelt | Yarka (unoffeecial) |
 Entrance tae Yirka | |
  Yirka | |
| Coordinates: 32°57′14.39″N 35°12′44.16″E | |
| Destrict | Northren |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Local cooncil |
| Area | |
| • Total | 15.564 km2 (6.009 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 13,000 |
| • Density | 840/km2 (2,200/sq mi) |
In 1596, Yirka appeared in Ottoman tax registers as bein in the Nahiya o Akka o the Liwa o Safad. It haed a population o 174 Muslim hoosehaulds an 24 bachelors an peyed taxes on an olive press.[1]
A visitor tae the Yirka in the late nineteent century wrote that "cut stanes o auncient appearance hae been uised in biggin the modren hooses. [..] Aboot a hunder cisterns cut in rock, a hauf o which are nae langer uised, an the ither hauf serve for the wants o the fowk, reveal the existence in this place o an auncient locality o some importance."[2] In the Survey o Wastren Palestine, Yarka is describit as a well-biggit stane veelage inhabitit bi 400 Druze who grew olives an figs.[3] The tomb o Sheikh Abu Saraya Ghanem, a Druze releegious scholar is locatit in Yarka.
Ane o the lairgest factories in the Middle East, a steel mill biggit an awned bi the Kadmani faimily, is locatit in Yarka. My Baby, wi 11,000 metres o retail space, is Israel's lairgest store for childer's an baby's supplies. The store haes an annual turnower o NIS 100 million.[4]
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