Amka

Amka (), also Amqa (), is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's Northern District, near Acre. The moshav, located in the vicinity of Amqa, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, was founded by Yemenite Jews in 1949. In , its population was .

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Settlement.subdivision_name: Mandatory Palestine
Israel village.name: Amka
Israel village.image: File:Amka December 2015.jpg
Israel village.foundation: Bronze age (Beth ha-Emek)Classic era (Kfar Amka)1949 (modern Moshav)
Israel village.founded_by: Yemenite Jews
Israel village.region: Western Galilee
Israel village.district: north
Israel village.council: Matte Asher
Israel village.pushpin_map: Israel northwest#Israel
Israel village.pushpin_mapsize: 250
Israel village.palgrid: 166/265
Israel village.ITMgrid: 215400/764900
Settlement.name: Amqa
Settlement.native_name: عمقا
Settlement.native_name_lang: ar
Settlement.other_name: 'Amqa
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_caption: The 19th-century mosque of Amqa

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Population: 644
Elevation: 74
Image: Amka December 2015.jpg

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Commons category: Amka
inception: 1949-01-01
native label: عمقا

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Etymology
History
Ancient period
Middle Ages
Ottoman Empire
British Mandate
Israel
Archaeological sites
See also
References
Bibliography
External links and references

==Etymology== Edward Henry Palmer thought that the name Amka derived from the Arabic word for “deep”, but according to Ringgren, it preserves the name of Beth Ha-Emek, a city mentioned in as part of the allotment of the Tribe of Asher.