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Deir Abu Da'if

Coordinates: 32°27′21″N 35°21′57″E / 32.45583°N 35.36583°E / 32.45583; 35.36583
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Deir Abu Da'if
Municipality type C
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicدير ابو ضعيف
Deir Abu Da'if is located in State of Palestine
Deir Abu Da'if
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; 35.36583
Palestine grid184/206
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Population
 (2006)
 • Total5,293
Name meaningThe convent of Abu Daif, p. n.=father of the weak, or lean one[1]

Deir Abu Da'if (Template:Lang-ar) 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 PEF'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 statistics 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 since 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

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