Meiser

Meiser
מֵיסִר‬
ميسر
Hebrew transcription(s)
 • unofficial Shaykh Maysar, Shaykh Maysir, Khirbat Maysar
Meiser
Coordinates: 32°26′41″N 35°2′31″E / 32.44472°N 35.04194°E / 32.44472; 35.04194Coordinates: 32°26′41″N 35°2′31″E / 32.44472°N 35.04194°E / 32.44472; 35.04194
Grid position 203/705 ITM
154/205 PAL
District Haifa
Council Menashe
Population (2017)[1] 1,945
Name meaning Sheikh Meisir, p.n.; meaning a certain gambling game with arrows.[2]

Meiser (Arabic: ميسر‎; Hebrew: מֵיסִר‬, also known as Shaykh Maysar or Khirbat Maysar) is an Israeli Arab village in northern Israel. Located half a kilometre west of the Green Line, north of the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in the triangle area of Wadi Ara, it is one of three Arab villages under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In 2017 it had a population of 1,945.[1]

History

Remains from the Early Roman era (end of the first century BCE–beginning of the first century CE) have been found here.[3][4][5]

Three strata from the Roman-Byzantine periods was excavated in the centre of the village.[6] A bathhouse, dating from the same time, has also been found.[7]

Ceramics and other remains from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4][8][9]

An excavation revealed remains dating from the end of the Byzantine period (7th century CE), and above it were remains of a residential house from the Abbasid period (9th–10th centuries CE).[10]

Ottoman era

In 1882, during the late Ottoman era, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found at Sheikh Meisir "foundations near a modern Mukam" (Muslim tomb).[11] In spite of this, Andrew Petersen, who inspected the Maqam in 1994, suggested "that the building may be considerably older than the nineteenth century."[12]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kherbet Maisir had a population of 49 Muslims.[13]

In the 1945 statistics Meiser was counted with Qaffin and Kh. el Aqaba, together they had a population of 1,570 Muslims,[14] with a land area of 23,755 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 5,863 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 8,371 were used for cereals,[16] while 40 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[17]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 152
  3. ↑ Dagot, 2007, Horbat Mesar
  4. 1 2 Zertal, 2016, pp. 292-294
  5. ↑ Massarwa, 2010, Horbat Mesar
  6. ↑ Sa‘id, 2009, Horbat Mesar
  7. ↑ Tabar and Gendelman, 2013, Horbat Mesar
  8. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 752
  9. ↑ Massarwa, 2009, Horbat Mesar (North)
  10. ↑ Sa‘id, 2008, Horbat Mesar
  11. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 68
  12. ↑ Petersen, 2001, p. 283
  13. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
  14. ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
  15. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 76
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 127
  17. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 177

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.
  • Dagot, Angelina (2007-01-10). "Horbat Mesar" (119). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
  • Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Massarwa, Abdallah (2009-06-23). "Horbat Mesar (North)" (121). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
  • Massarwa, Abdallah (2010-03-30). "Horbat Mesar" (122). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
  • 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.
  • Petersen, Andrew (2001). A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology). 1. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-727011-0.
  • Sa‘id, Kareem (2008-12-18). "Horbat Mesar" (120). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
  • Sa‘id, Kareem (2009-12-07). "Horbat Mesar" (121). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
  • Tabar, Murad Anton; Gendelman, Peter (2013-12-31). "Horbat Mesar" (125). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
  • Zertal, A. (2016). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. 3. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004312307.
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