Municipality type C in Ramallah and al-Bireh, State of Palestine
Deir as-Sudan (
Arabic : دير السودان ) is a
Palestinian town in the
Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate , located 20 kilometers Northwest of
Ramallah in the northern
West Bank . According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of approximately 2,159 inhabitants in 2017.
[1]
Location
Deir as Sudan is located 14.7 kilometers (9.1 mi) northwest of
Ramallah . It is bordered by
Ajjul to the east,
Bani Zeid al-Sharqiya to the north,
Kafr Ein to the west,
Umm Safa and
An Nabi Salih to the south.
[3]
History
Ceramic
sherds from the
Byzantine ,
[4]
Crusader /
Ayyubid
[5] and
Mamluk
[5] eras have been found here.
Ottoman era
In 1517, the village was included in the
Ottoman empire with the rest of
Palestine , and in the 1596
tax-records it appeared as Dair Sudan , located in the
Nahiya of Quds of the
Liwa of
Al-Quds . The population was 14 households, all
Muslim . They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 3,400
akçe .
[6] Pottery from the early Ottoman era have also been found here.
[5]
In 1838, it was noted as a Muslim village in the Beni Zeid district, north of Jerusalem.
[7]
An Ottoman village list of about 1870 indicated 22 houses and a population of 90, though the population count included men, only.
[8]
[9]
In 1882, the
PEF 's
Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Deir es Sudan as: "A village of moderate size, with a
well to the west, on the slope of a hill, with olive-groves round it."
[10]
In 1896 the population of Der es-sudan was estimated to be about 153 persons.
[11]
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine , conducted by the
British Mandate authorities , the village, named Dair Al-Sudan , had a population of 173, all Muslim,
[12] increasing in the
1931 census to 243 Muslims, in 53 houses.
[13]
In the
1945 statistics the population of Deir es Sudan was 280 Muslims,
[14] with 4,498 dunams (4.5 km2 ; 1.7 sq mi) of land under their jurisdiction, according to an official land and population survey.
[15] Of this, 2,416 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 841 were for cereals,
[16] while 15 dunams (1.5 ha; 3.7 acres) were built-up (urban) land.
[17]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the
1948 Arab–Israeli War , and after the
1949 Armistice Agreements , Deir as-Sudan came under
Jordanian occupation .
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 486 inhabitants in Deir as-Sudan.
[18]
1967-present
Since the
Six-Day War in 1967, Deir as-Sudan has been under
Israeli occupation .
After the
1995 accords , 57.2% of the village's total area has been defined as
Area A land,
6.5% as
Area B land, while the remaining 36.3% is
Area C .
[19]
References
^
a
b
Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF) .
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report).
State of Palestine . February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
^ Palmer, 1881, p.
229
^
Deir as Sudan village profile , ARIJ, p. 4
^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 823
^
a
b
c Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 455
^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 116
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p.
124
^ Socin, 1879, p.
152 It was also noted to be in the Beni Zeid district.
^ Hartmann, 1883, p.
107 ; also noted 22 houses
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p.
290
^ Schick, 1896, p.
124
^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p.
16
^ Mills, 1932, p.
49
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p.
26
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
64
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
112
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
162
^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p.
24
^
Deir as Sudan village profile , ARIJ, p. 16
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