Deir Qaddis

Deir Qaddis
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic دير قديس
 • Also spelled Deir Qiddis (official)
Dayr Qaddis (unofficial)
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Deir Qaddis
Location of Deir Qaddis within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°56′58″N 35°02′44″E / 31.94944°N 35.04556°E / 31.94944; 35.04556Coordinates: 31°56′58″N 35°02′44″E / 31.94944°N 35.04556°E / 31.94944; 35.04556
Palestine grid 154/150
Governorate Ramallah & al-Bireh
Government
 • Type Village council
 • Head of Municipality Fares Ibrahim
Area
 • Jurisdiction 8,207 dunams (8.2 km2 or 3.2 sq mi)
Elevation[1] 372 m (1,220 ft)
Population (2007)
 • Jurisdiction 1,942
Name meaning "Monastery of the saint"[2]

Deir Qaddis (Arabic: دير قديس‎) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, located sixteen kilometers west of Ramallah.[3] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of approximately 1,942 inhabitants in 2007.[4] The town consists of 8,207 dunams, of which 438 dunams are classified as built-up area. As a result of 1995 accords, 7.7% of Deir Qaddis' land was transferred to the Palestinian National Authority for civil affairs, socalled Area B, but Israel still retains full control of 92.3% of the town, being in Area C.[3]

Location

Deir Qaddis is located 15.7 kilometers (9.8 mi) north-west of Ramallah. It is bordered by Kharbatha Bani Harith and Al-Itihad to the east, Shibtin to the north, Ni’lin to the west, and Bil’in to the south.[1]

History

Deir Qaddis means the "monastery of the saint".[2] French explorer Victor Guérin found in the Kharbet (=ruin) Deir Kaddis remains of houses built with large blocks and several cisterns dug into the rock,[5] while SWP (1882) notes a ruined monastery and cave near by the village, and that the name of the village indicates that a convent once existed here.[6]

Ottoman era

The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as Dayr Qiddis in the Nahiya of Ramlah of the Liwa of Gazza. It had a population of 11 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive- and fruit trees, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes; a total of 5,400 akçe.[7]

No sherds from the early Ottoman era have been found here.[8] In 1838 Deir el-Kaddis was noted as a village, located in the Beni Hasan area, west of Jerusalem.[9][10][11]

In 1863 Guérin estimated that Deir Kaddis had about 350 inhabitants,[5] while an Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed Der Kaddis had 36 houses and a population of 112, though the population count included only the men.[12][13]

In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Deir el Kuddis as a "small hamlet on a high hill-top, with gardens to the north [..] There is a well on the east."[6]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Dair Qaddis had a population of 299 inhabitants, all Muslims,[14] increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 368, still all Muslim, in 82 houses.[15]

In the 1945 statistics, the population of Deir Qaddis was 440 Muslims,[16] with 8,224 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[17] 1,815 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,069 dunams for cereals,[18] while 8 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[19]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Deir Qaddis came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 752 inhabitants in Deir Qaddis.[20]

Post-1967

Deir Qaddis came under Israeli occupation along with the rest of the West Bank after the 1967 Six-Day War. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 461, 25 of whom originated from the Israeli territory.[21]

Israel has confiscated land from Deir Qaddis in order to construct three Israeli settlements: 1818 dunams were taken for Modi'in Illit, 446 dunams for Nili, and 471 dunams for Na'aleh.[3]

Part of village land has been separated from Deir Qaddis after Israel finished the Separation Barrier, partly on village land, in 2008. The first time the villagers were given permission to access their land behind the barrier was in 2012.[22]

The town today contains a mosque, three schools (two primary and one secondary), two medical clinics and a sports club.

The town's prominent families are Husain, Qattosa, Nasser, Abu Zeid, Hamada, Awadh, Abu Laban and Kreish.[23]

References

  1. 1 2 Deir Qaddis Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  2. 1 2 Palmer, 1881, p. 228
  3. 1 2 3 The Case of Deir Qiddis village Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 10 November 2007.
  4. ↑ 2007 PCBS Census Archived December 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.114.
  5. 1 2 Guérin, 1875, p. 85
  6. 1 2 Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 297
  7. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 154
  8. ↑ Finkelstein, et al, 1997, p. 192
  9. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 123
  10. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 66
  11. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, p. 133
  12. ↑ Socin, 1879, p. 152
  13. ↑ Hartmann, 1883, p. 140, also noted 36 houses
  14. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Division Jaffa, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 22
  15. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 19
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  17. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 66
  18. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 114
  19. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 164
  20. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
  21. ↑ Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  22. ↑ Ocha Monthly report, 2012
  23. ↑ History of Dayr Qaddis Palestine Remembered. (in Arabic)

Bibliography

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  • 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.
  • Finkelstein, I.; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3.
  • 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. (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. 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.
  • Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem türkischen Staatskalender für Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 6: 102–149.
  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
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