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{{Short description|Neighborhood of Jerusalem}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Baka
'''Baka''' ({{lang-ar|بقعه}}, lit. "Valley";<ref name="welcome">{{cite web |url=http://www.welcome-home.co.il/en-us/pages/info/neighborhoods.asp |title=Neighborhoods: Baka |year=2011 |access-date=20 December 2011 |publisher=Welcome Home Realty |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005030908/http://www.welcome-home.co.il/en-us/pages/info/neighborhoods.asp |archive-date=5 October 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> {{lang-he|בַּקְעָה}}) is a neighborhood in southern [[Jerusalem]]. The official name is Geulim, which is mainly used on road signs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/a-stir-over-sign-language-1.375919 |title=A stir over sign language: A recently discovered trove of documents from the 1950s reveals a nasty battle in Jerusalem over the hebraization of street and neighborhood names |first=Ofer |last=Aderet |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=29 July 2011 |access-date=20 December 2011}}</ref>▼
| native_name = البقعة, בַּקְעָה
| native_name_lang = ar, he
| settlement_type = Neighborhood
| image_skyline = Bakaa74 ST 12.JPG
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Jerusalem
| subdivision_type = City
| subdivision_name = [[Jerusalem]]
| established_title = Established
| established_date = Late 19th century
| elevation_m = 760
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▲'''Baka''' ({{lang-ar|
==Geography==
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==History==
Baka was established in the late 19th century after the completion of the Jerusalem Railway Station. The station created the nucleus of a commercial center that eventually attracted mostly wealthy Muslim, Christian, and Armenian families from the Old City, who built mansions there in the 1920s.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140610085545/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-189053894.html A green hub], ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''</ref> The neighborhood had an [[agricultural]] character until the 1950s.
[[File:Baka 1948.jpg|thumb|Water distribution in Baka, 1948]]
[[File:Bakaa 1948.jpg|right|thumb|Baka as a military zone, 1948]]
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[[File:HaMessila Park P1140273.JPG|thumb|right|upright|A section of Park HaMesila, Baka]]
The [[Train Track Park]] (''Park HaMesila''), the longest bike path in Jerusalem and one of the major recreation areas in the city, runs along Derech HaRekevet on the western edge of Baka.<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=268583 All Out Adventure: Romantic railway route]</ref>
==Gallery==
<gallery widths="300" heights="300">
File:BakahJerusalemFeb252023 01.jpg|Baka East to Beit Lehem Road
File:BakahJerusalemFeb252023 03.jpg|Baka West to Beit Lehem Road
</gallery>
==References==
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{{Neighborhoods of Jerusalem}}
{{Authority control}}
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[[Category:Neighbourhoods of Jerusalem]]
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