Fardisya

Fardisya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south of Tulkarm. Fardisya was mostly destroyed with the exception of a single deserted house.

Fardisya

فرديسيا
Village
Etymology: Paradise[1]
Fardisya
Coordinates: 32°16′41″N 35°00′47″E
Palestine grid151/187
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTulkarm
Date of depopulationApril 1, 1948
Area
 • Total1,092 dunams (1.092 km2 or 270 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total20[3][2]
Current LocalitiesSha'ar Efraim[4]

History

Achaelological excavations have recovered ceramics from the Iron Age (c. tenth century BCE), and a sarcophagus from the Roman era.[5][6]

The Crusaders referred to Fardisya as Phardesi.[4] In 1265, Fardisya was among the villages and estates sultan Baibars allocated to his emirs after he had expelled the Crusaders, with the whole of Fardisya given to his emir Saif al-Din Baidaghan al-Rukni.[7]

Potsherds from the Mamluk era have also been found here.[6]

Ottoman era

Fardisa was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 83, (13 households and 2 bachelors), all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 33% various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 5,000 akçe. All the revenues went to a waqf.[4][8]

In 1838, Furdisia was noted as a village in the Beni Sa'ab area, west of Nablus.[9] In 1870, Victor Guérin noted that the village was situated on a hill.[10] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described "a small village near the edge of the hills, remarkable only from a palm growing at it.”[11]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine there were 15 villagers, all Muslim,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 55 Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.[13]

In the 1945 statistics, Fardisiya had a population of 20 Muslims[3] with a total of 1,092 dunums of land.[2] Of this, a total of 187 dunams were plantations and irrigated land, 388 dunums were for cereals,[14] while 19 dunams were classified as “built-up” areas.[15]

  • Fardisya 1942 1:20,000
  • Fardisya 1945 1:250,000

1948, aftermath

The moshav Sha'ar Efraim is close to some of Fardisya's lands.[4]

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 182
  2. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 74
  3. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 20
  4. Khalidi, 1992, p. 552
  5. Massarwa, 2009, Khirbat Fardisya
  6. Masarwa, 2008, Khirbat Fardisya
  7. Ibn al-Furat, 1971, pp. 82, 209, 249 (map)
  8. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 141
  9. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 128
  10. Guérin, 1875, p. 352
  11. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 164
  12. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Tulkarem, p. 27
  13. Mills, 1932, p. 54
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 125
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 175

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