Lakiya
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Lakiya () or Laqye () is a Bedouin town (local council) in the Southern District of Israel. In it had a population of .
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- Settlement.name
- Lakiya
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Local council
- Settlement.other_name
- Laqye
- Settlement.image_skyline
- WikiAir IL-12-01 412.JPG
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Israel north negev#Israel
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Southern
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1982
- Settlement.leader_title
- Head of Municipality
- Settlement.leader_name
- Khaled el-Sana
- Settlement.unit_pref
- dunam
- Settlement.population_density_km2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- اللقية
- Country
- Israel
- Located in
- Beersheba Subdistrict
- Population
- 15294
- Area
- 5.728
- Elevation
- 398
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- WikiAir IL-12-01 413.JPG
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- Lakiya
- native label
- اللقية
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Lakiya () or Laqye () is a Bedouin town (local council) in the Southern District of Israel. In it had a population of .
==History== Lakiya was founded in 1985 as part of a government project to settle Bedouins in permanent settlements. It is one of the seven original government-planned Bedouin townships in the Negev desert.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lakiya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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