Araqa is a Palestinian village in Jenin governorate, 12 km west of the city at 280 metres above sea level, with 5,675 dunums of land bordered by al-Hashimiyya, Silat al-Harithiyya, al-Yamun, Ya'bad, Arraba and Anin. It is believed to have been founded in the 18th century by or under the patronage of the Abd al-Hadi family. Pottery from the late Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic and early Ottoman periods has been found on the site, which Guérin described in 1870 as a small village on a hill divided in two, and the PEF survey of 1882 called 'a medium-sized village on the side of a hill, with a well to the south'. Its population grew from 168 in 1922 to 1,585 in 1997.
Source: Arabic Wikipedia — «عرقة (جنين)» — https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A9_(%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86)
