Yirka

Yirka is an Israeli Druze toun in Israel's North Destrict, northeast o Acre. In 1596, Yirka regarded in Ottoman tax registers as bein in the Nahiya o Akka o the Liwa o Safad. It haed a populace o 174 Muslim hoosehaulds an 24 bachelors an peyed taxes on an olive press. A traveller tae the Yirka within the past due nineteent century wrote that "reduce stanes o auncient appearance hae been uised in biggin the modren hooses. Aboot a hunder cisterns cut in rock, a hauf o which are nae langer uised, an the ither hauf serve for the desires o the fowk, reveal the life in this region o an auncient locality o some significance."

In the Survey o Wastren Palestine, Yarka is describit as a properly-biggit stane veelage inhabitit bi 400 Druze who grew olives an figs. The tomb o Sheikh Abu Saraya Ghanem, a Druze releegious student is locatit in Yarka. This metropolis is first-rate city for vacationer.