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
 (2017)[1]
 • Total7,045
Name meaningThe convent of Abu Daif, p. n.=father of the weak, or lean one[2]

Deir Abu Da'if (Arabic: دير ابو ضعيف) 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 and 7,045 in 2017.[1][3]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

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.[5]

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.[6]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Shafa al-Qibly.[7]

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."[8]

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,[9] where the Christians were all Orthodox,[10] increasing in the 1931 census to 598; 593 Muslims and 5 Christians, with 136 houses.[11]

In 1944/5 statistics the population was 850, all Muslims,[12] with a total of 12,906 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[13] Of this, 1,919 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,836 dunams were for cereals,[14] while 30 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[15]

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.[16]

Post-1967

Deir Abu Da'if has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Six-Day War.

References

  1. 1 2 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. 160
  3. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived September 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  4. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 787
  5. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 157
  6. ↑ Guérin, 1874, p. 334
  7. ↑ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 255.
  8. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 83
  9. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  10. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
  11. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 67
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  15. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  16. ↑ Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 25

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