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Barqa, Gaza
Vanished settlement · Israel
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.777, 34.700
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: Palestinian village in Gaza subdistrict, depopulated in 1948
History
Barqa was a Palestinian Arab village located 37 km north of Gaza near the modern-day Israeli city of Ashdod. It was referred to as Barka by the Greeks and Bareca by the Romans during their rule over the ancient Philistine city. In 1945, the village had a population of 890 and total land area of 5,206 dunums.