Deir Sharaf

Deir Sharaf
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicدير شرف
 • LatinDayr Sharaf (official)
Deir Sharaf
Deir Sharaf
Deir Sharaf is located in State of Palestine
Deir Sharaf
Deir Sharaf
Location of Deir Sharaf within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°15′15″N 35°11′17″E / 32.25417°N 35.18806°E / 32.25417; 35.18806
Palestine grid168/184
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateNablus
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total2,949
Name meaningThe Monastery of the Nobles[2]

Deir Sharaf (Arabic: دير شرف) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located northwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,949 inhabitants in 2017.[1]

Location

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Deir Sharaf is located 7.8 kilometers (4.8 mi) northwest of Nablus. It is bordered by An Naqura, Beit Iba, and Sabastiya to the east, Burqa and Ramin to the north, Beit Lid to the west, and Qusin to the south.[3]

History

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Pottery sherds from the Iron Age II, Byzantine, early Muslim and Medieval era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

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Deir Sharaf, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 it was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami, which was part of the Sanjak of Nablus. The village had a population of 55 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, beehives and/or goats, in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a tax on Muslims in the Nablus area; a total of 9,372 akçe. The whole of the revenue went to a Waqf for the Madrasa of Ramla.[5]

In 1838, Deir Sheraf was located in the Wady esh-Sha'ir District, west of Nablus.[6][7]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted “a small square in front of the mosque paved by ancient slabs” in the village, which he called Deir Ech-Cheraf.[8]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Wadi al-Sha'ir.[9]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Deir Sheraf: "A village of small size, situate[d] in a hollow. Above it, beside the road on the east, is a good spring, apparently perennial, and round this are vegetable gardens irrigated with its waters. Figs and olives also grow in the vicinity."[10]

British Mandate era

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Deir Sharaf 1920

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Deir Sharaf had a population of 487, all Muslims,[11] increasing in the 1931 census to 572, still all Muslim, in a total of 118 houses.[12]

In the 1945 statistics, Deir Sharaf had a population of 800, all Muslims,[13] with 7,190 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[14] Of this, 391 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 4,335 used for cereals,[15] while 71 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[16]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,241 inhabitants in Deir Sharaf.[17]

Post-1967

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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Deir Sharaf has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by Israel was 973, of whom 46 originated from the Israeli territory.[18]

After the 1995 accords, 23% of village land was classified as Area B, the remaining 77% as Area C. 236 dunams Deir Sharaf’s land has been confiscated by the Israel for the Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron, located just north of Deir Sharaf.[19]

On 3 July 2014, Israeli authorities stated that they were confiscating 16 dunams of land near the village for “military purposes”.[20]

Demography

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The village's residents have their origins in various places, including Ramin, 'Atara, Qusin, Kafr Aqab and others.[21]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 182
  3. ^ Deir Sharaf village profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  4. ^ Zertal, 2004, pp. 390-391
  5. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 126
  6. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 138
  7. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd Appendix, p. 129
  8. ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 186
  9. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 253.
  10. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 159
  11. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
  12. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 61
  13. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59
  15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105
  16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156
  17. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  18. ^ Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  19. ^ Deir Sharaf village profile, ARIJ, pp. 15-16
  20. ^ 'Israeli authorities issued confiscation orders for 16 dunams of Palestinian land west of N,' Ma'an News Agency 3 July 2014.
  21. ^ Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 353

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