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Occupation Date: 13 of
May 1948.
The
village was completely destroyed with the exception of two houses
remain standing.
Barqa inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed. The
population in 1931 was: 594 Arabs and 6 Jews, in 1945 there were 890
inhabitants.
The
Greeks referred to Barqa by Barka, and the Romans called it Bareca.
It had no schools, however, its students attended school in the
nearby village of the al-Batani al-Gharbi.
Barqa had three shrines: the 1st for al-Shaykh Muhammad, the 2nd
for al-Shaykh Zarruq, and the 3rd for al-Nabi Barq.
Barqa contained Greek relics, an old well, stone carvings, and
fragments of pottery.
No
settlements on village lands.
According to the Palestinian historian
Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land
are:
"Two houses remain standing on
the site. One serves as a warehouse; it is made of concrete and has
a covered portico on two sides. The other, a stone house with
rectangular doors and windows and a flat roof, stands deserted in
the midst of wild vegetation."
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