بتير: Al-Qa'ah, the Delta of Battir القاعة، دلتا بتير

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Al-QA’AH - one of Battir’s lowest agricultural lands, 550m above sea level, compared with the adjacent “el-Harik” with a height well over 900m. It is a plain, fertile, deep piece of land whose soil is loose, well-drained, perennially humidity retentive. Hardly could winter snow invade it, thanks to its warm climate. Al-Qa’a and the surrounding fields “jinans” can justly be called the “Delta” of Battir and the vegetable-basket of the village and its neighboring towns. This Delta has been cultivated for more than three thousand years with various agricultural products which used to be sold in the Jerusalem markets since the first millennium BC until today.