Kfar Kama

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Kfar Kama
  • <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />כְּפַר כַּמָא‎‎
  • كفر كما‎
Hebrew transcription(s)
 • ISO 259 Kfar Kamaˀ
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Flag of Kfar Kama
Flag		 Official logo of Kfar Kama
Coat of arms
Kfar Kama is located in Israel
Kfar Kama
Kfar Kama
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Grid position 191/236 PAL
District Northern
Government
 • Type Local council (from 1950)
Area
 • Total 8,854 dunams (8.854 km2 or 3.419 sq mi)
Population (2011)
 • Total 3,005
Name meaning The village of truffles[1]

Kfar Kama (Hebrew: <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />כְּפַר כַּמָא‎; Adyghe: Кфар Кама) is a town located in the lower Galilee, Israel, with a population of 2,900,[2] largely Circassian.

History

Kfar Kama might be identified with a village Helenoupolis that Constantine established in honor of his mother Helen.[3]

Excavations carried out in 1961 and 1963 revealed 4th century tombs.[4] Two churches dated to the early 6th century, one dedicated to Saint Thecla, were uncovered, with multicolored mosaics of floral, animal and geometric patterns.[4]

In the Crusader period it was known as Kapharchemme or Capharkeme.[5]

Ruins and parts of five limestone columns have been found, together with a circular basalt olive-press and cisterns.[6]

Ottoman era

In 1596, Kfar Kama appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Tiberias in the Liwa of Safad. It had a population of 34 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, cotton, and goats or beehives.[7]

A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as El Hadaci.[8]

In the 1870s, it was described as having "basaltic stone houses, containing about 200 Moslems, situated in plain of arable soil."[9]

The current village was founded in 1878 by 1150 Circassian immigrants from the Adyghe tribe Shapsugs who were exiled from the Caucasus by the Russians to the Ottoman Empire due to the Russian-Circassian War.[10] Initially they made their living by raising animals, but later became farmers.[10] The first school was established about 1880.[10]

British Mandate era

At the time of the 1922 census of Palestine, Kfar Kama had a population of 670 Muslims and 7 Christians.[11]

In 1945, the population comprised 660 Arabs and the land area was 8,819 dunams.[12] Of this, 8,293 dunams were for cereals,[13] while 108 dunams were built-up land.[14]

1948, and aftermath

The school in the village teaches in a mixed environment of classes in Circassian, Hebrew, Arabic and English languages.[15]

Kfar Kama is one of two Circassian villages in Israel. The other one is Rehaniya. The Circassians are Muslims, who unlike the main Israeli Arab Muslim minority, perform military service in the IDF.

A Center for Circassian Heritage is situated in the village.

Notable natives and residents

The Kfar Kama families

Shapsug families that live in Israel Kfar Kama

  • Abrag (Adyghe: Абрэгь)
  • Ashmuz/Achmuzh (Adyghe: Ачъумыжъ)
  • Bghana (Adyghe: Бгъанэ)
  • Bat (Adyghe: Бат)
  • Blanghaps (Adyghe: БлэнгъэпсI)
  • Batwash (Adyghe: БэтIыуашъ)
  • Zazi(Adyghe: Зази)
  • Kobla (Adyghe: Коблэ)
  • Qal (Adyghe: Къалыкъу)
  • Qatizh (Adyghe: Къэтыжъ)
  • Lauz (Adyghe: ЛъыIужъ)
  • Libai/Labai(Adyghe: ЛIыпый)
  • Nago (Adyghe: Наго)
  • Natkho (Adyghe: Натхъо)
  • Nash (Adyghe: Наш)
  • Napso (Adyghe: Нэпсэу)
  • Thawcho (Adyghe: Тхьэухъо)
  • Gorkozh (Adyghe: ГъоркIожъ)
  • Hazal (Adyghe: Хъэзэл)
  • Hadish (Adyghe: Хьэдищ)
  • Hako/Hakho (Adyghe: Хьэхъу)
  • Shamsi (Adyghe: Чъуэмшъо)
  • Choshha/Shoshha (Adyghe: Чъушъхьэ)
  • Showgan (Adyghe: Шэугьэн)
  • Shaga (Adyghe: Шъуагьэ)
  • Sagas/Shagash (Adyghe: Шъэгьашъ)

In the past there was also Shhalakhwa (Adyghe: Шхьэлахъуэ).

Other families that live in Kfar Kama

  • Abzah (Adyghe: Абзах)
  • Boshnakh (Adyghe: Бущнакъ)
  • Bazdug/Bzhedug (Adyghe: Бжъэдыгъу)
  • Hatukai (Adyghe: Хьэтыкъуай)
  • Tsai (Adyghe: Цэй)
  • Shapsugh (Adyghe: Шапсыгъ).

Gallery

  • The mosque and Circassian Heritage Center in Kfar Kama.

  • The old village in Kfar Kama.

  • F'ufes.jpg

  • Circassian men in traditional clothes in Kfar Kama

See also

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 127
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Tsafrir, Di Segni and Green, 1994, 142
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dauphin, 1998, p. 727
  5. ↑ Pringle, 1997, p. 117
  6. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 391
  7. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 190
  8. ↑ Karmon, 1960, p. 167.
  9. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 360
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 122
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 172
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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External links

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