Barqusya
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.
Barqusya
بركوسيا برقوسية | |
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| Etymology: “variegated” | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Barqusya (click the buttons) | |
Barqusya 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 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,216 dunams (3.216 km2 or 1.242 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 330 |
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