Deir Sammit

Deir Sammit
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic دير سامت
Deir Sammit
Location of Deir Sammit within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°31′22″N 34°58′27″E / 31.52278°N 34.97417°E / 31.52278; 34.97417Coordinates: 31°31′22″N 34°58′27″E / 31.52278°N 34.97417°E / 31.52278; 34.97417
Palestine grid 148/103
Governorate Hebron
Government
 • Type Municipality
Population (2007)
 • Jurisdiction 6,237
Name meaning Kh. Deir Sâmat, the ruin of the monastery of the silent man[1]

Deir Sammit (Arabic: دير سامت‎) is a Palestinian town located eight kilometers west of Hebron.The town is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 6,237 in 2007.[2]

History

In the early tax registers from the 1500s in the Ottoman Empire, Deir Sammit was noted as being cultivated[3] by the villagers of Suba.[4]

In 1838, it was noted as a place "in ruins or deserted," part of the area between Hebron and Gaza, but under the jurisdiction of Hebron.[5][6]

In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted "traces of ruins, caves, and cisterns" here.[7]

British Mandate era

At the time of the 1931 census of Palestine the population of Deir Samit was counted under Dura.[8]

Modern era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Deir Sammit came under Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 808 inhabitants in Deir Sammit.[9]

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Deir Sammit has been under Israeli occupation.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 398
  2. ↑ 2007 PCBS Census Archived December 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.119.
  3. ↑ Toledano, 1984, p. 302. Toledano gives its location as 31°31′20″N 34°58′05″E
  4. ↑ Toledano, 1984, p. 282
  5. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 117
  6. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 10
  7. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 353
  8. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 29
  9. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 22

Bibliography

  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
  • 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.
  • Toledano, E. (1984). "The Sanjaq of Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century: Aspects of Topography and Population". Archivum Ottomanicum. 9: 279–319.
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