Amka
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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 194
Amka December 2015
Excavations in Amka
The village mosque of Amqa, likely dating to early 19th century
Daher al-Umar
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Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani, alternatively spelled Zahir al-Umar or Dahir al-Umar, was the paramount sheikh of the Zayadina family and ruler of northern Palestine from the 1730s until his death in 1775,
Amka
…citadel of Atlit. In 1776 the village was used as a base by Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar to suppress a revolt led by Ali al-Daher, one of the sons of Sheikh Daher al-Umar, who ruled the Galilee between 1730 and 1775. A map by Pierre Jacotin from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 showed the place, misnamed as El Mead, According…
Modern, artistic representation of Daher
Daher's purported home in Arraba
Ruins of the fortress of Jiddin, in the northwestern Galilee
Drawing of Nazareth, 1839