Deir Qaddis Explained

Deir Qaddis
Translit Lang1:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Type:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Info:Arabic: دير قديس
Translit Lang1 Type1:Latin
Translit Lang1 Info1:Deir Qiddis (official)
Dayr Qaddis (unofficial)
Type:Municipality type D (Village council)
Pushpin Map:Palestine
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Deir Qaddis within Palestine
Coordinates:31.9494°N 35.0456°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:154/150
Subdivision Type:State
Subdivision Name:State of Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Ramallah and al-Bireh
Established Title:Founded
Leader Title:Head of Municipality
Leader Name:Fares Ibrahim
Unit Pref:dunam
Area Total Km2:8.2
Area Total Dunam:8207
Elevation Footnotes:[1]
Elevation M:372
Population Footnotes:[2]
Population Total:2452
Population As Of:2017
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec1:Name meaning
Blank Info Sec1:"Monastery of the saint"[3]

Deir Qaddis (Arabic: دير قديس) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank, located sixteen kilometers west of Ramallah.[4] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,452 inhabitants in 2017. The town consists of 8,207 dunams, of which 438 dunams are classified as built-up area. As a result of 1995 accords, 7.7% of Deir Qaddis' land was transferred to the Palestinian National Authority for civil affairs, so-called Area B, but Israel still retains full control of 92.3% of the town, being in Area C.

Location

Deir Qaddis is located 15.7km (09.8miles) north-west of Ramallah. It is bordered by Kharbatha Bani Harith and Al-Itihad to the east, Shibtin to the north, Ni’lin to the west, and Bil’in to the south.[1]

Etymology

The name Deir Qaddis has long been surmised to an Arabic one. In the 19th century, the name was interpreted to mean "monastery of the saint". The second part of the name, Qaddis, means a holy person and is of Aramaic origin.[5]

History

French explorer Victor Guérin found in the Kharbet (=ruin) Deir Kaddis remains of houses built with large blocks and several cisterns dug into the rock, while SWP (1882) notes a ruined monastery and cave near by the village, and that the name of the village indicates that a convent once existed here.

A survey by Finkelstein and Lederman uncovered no ancient pottery.[6]

Ottoman era

The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as Dayr Qiddis in the Nahiya of Ramlah of the Liwa of Gazza. It had a population of 11 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive- and fruit trees, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes; a total of 5,400 akçe.[7]

No sherds from the early Ottoman era have been found here.[8] In 1838 Deir el-Kaddis was noted as a village, located in the Beni Hasan area, west of Jerusalem.[9] [10] [11]

In 1863 Guérin estimated that Deir Kaddis had about 350 inhabitants,[12] while an Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed Der Kaddis had 36 houses and a population of 112, though the population count included only the men.[13] [14]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Deir el Kuddis as a "small hamlet on a high hill-top, with gardens to the north [..] There is a well on the east."[15]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Dair Qaddis had a population of 299 inhabitants, all Muslims,[16] increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 368, still all Muslim, in 82 houses.[17]

In the 1945 statistics, the population of Deir Qaddis was 440 Muslims,[18] with 8,224 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[19] 1,815 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,069 dunams for cereals,[20] while 8 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[21]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 752 inhabitants in Deir Qaddis.[22]

Post-1967

Deir Qaddis came under Israeli occupation during the 1967 Six-Day War. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 461, 25 of whom originated from the Israeli territory.[23]

After the 1995 accords, 7.7% of the village's total area has been classified as Area B land, while the remaining 93.3% is Area C.[24]

According to ARIJ, Israel has confiscated land from Deir Qaddis in order to construct three Israeli settlements:

Part of the village land was separated from Deir Qaddis after Israel finished the Israeli West Bank barrier in 2008. The first time the villagers were given permission to access their land behind the barrier was in 2012.[26]

The town today contains a mosque, three schools (two primary and one secondary), two medical clinics and a sports club.

The town's prominent families are Husain, Qattosa, Nasser, Abu Zeid, Hamada, Awadh, Abu Laban and Kreish.[27]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Deir_Qaddis_vp_en.pdf Deir Qaddis Village Profile
  2. February 2018 . Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) . . 64–82 . 2023-10-24.
  3. Palmer, 1881, p. 228
  4. http://poica.org/2007/11/the-segregation-wall-an-unlawful-measure-of-land-grab-the-case-of-deir-qiddis-village/ The Case of Deir Qiddis village
  5. Marom . Roy . Zadok . Ran . 2023 . Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan’s Endowment Deed (1552) . Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins . en . 139 . 2.
  6. Book: Finkelstein, Israel . Highlands of Many Cultures . Lederman . Zvi . Bunimovitz . Shlomo . Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section . 1997 . 965-440-007-3 . Finkelstein . Israel . Jerusalem . 192 . Lederman . Zvi.
  7. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 154
  8. Finkelstein, et al, 1997, p. 192
  9. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, p. 133
  10. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 66
  11. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 123
  12. Guérin, 1875, p. 85
  13. Socin, 1879, p. 152
  14. Hartmann, 1883, p. 140, also noted 36 houses
  15. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 297
  16. Barron, 1923, Table VII, Division Jaffa, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 22
  17. Mills, 1932, p. 19
  18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  19. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 66
  20. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 114
  21. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 164
  22. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
  23. Web site: The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version . Perlmann, Joel . November 2011 – February 2012 . . 24 June 2016 .
  24. http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Deir_Qaddis_vp_en.pdf Deir Qaddis Village Profile
  25. http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Deir_Qaddis_vp_en.pdf Deir Qaddis Village Profile
  26. https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/609C27E97571576A85257B02004BADB0 Ocha Monthly report, 2012
  27. http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Dayr_Qaddis_972/Article_7920.html History of Dayr Qaddis

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