Deir Abu Da'if

Deir Abu Da'if
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic دير ابو ضعيف
Deir Abu Da'if
Location of Deir Abu Da'if within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°27′21″N 35°21′57″E / 32.45583°N 35.36583°E / 32.45583; 35.36583Coordinates: 32°27′21″N 35°21′57″E / 32.45583°N 35.36583°E / 32.45583; 35.36583
Palestine grid 184/206
Governorate Jenin
Government
 • Type Municipality
Population (2006)
 • Jurisdiction 5,293
Name meaning The convent of Abu Daif, p. n.=father of the weak, or lean one[1]

Deir Abu Da'if (Arabic: دير ابو ضعيف‎) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 6 km east of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,293 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[3]

Ottoman era

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted Deir Abu Da'if as one of a range of villages round a height, the other villages being named as Beit Qad, Fuku'a, Deir Ghuzal and Araneh.[4]

In 1870 Victor Guérin noted it as a small village, south of Beit Qad, but less important than it. Guérin called the village for Ed-Deir.[5]

In 1882 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it: "A small village near the edge of the hills, on rising ground. The water supply is from cisterns. Olive- gardens exist on the north. The houses are of mud and stone."[6]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 441; 434 Muslims and 7 Christians,[7] where the Christians were all Orthodox,[8] increasing in the 1931 census to 598; 593 Muslims and 5 Christians, with 136 houses.[9]

In 1944/5 the population was 850, all Muslims,[10] with a total of 12,906 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 1,919 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,836 dunams were for cereals,[12] while 30 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[13]

Jordanian era

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Deir Abu Da'if came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,191 inhabitants.[14]

Post-1967

Deir Abu Da'if has been under Israeli occupation along with the rest of the West Bank after the 1967 Six-Day War.

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 160
  2. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived September 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 787
  4. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 157
  5. ↑ Guérin, 1874, p. 334
  6. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 83
  7. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  8. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
  9. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 67
  10. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  14. ↑ Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 25

Bibliography

  • Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
  • Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
  • Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
  • Guérin, V. (1874). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
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