Deir Qaddis

Deir Qaddis
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
•  Arabic	دير قديس
•  Latin	Deir Qiddis (official) Dayr Qaddis (unofficial)
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Deir Qaddis Location of Deir Qaddis within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°56′58″N35°02′44″E / 31.94944°N 35.04556°E / 31.94944; 35.04556
Palestine grid	154/150
State	State of Palestine
Governorate	Ramallah and al-Bireh
Government
• Type	Village council
• Head of Municipality	Fares Ibrahim
Area
• Total	8,207  dunams (8.2 km2 or 3.2 sq mi)
Elevation [1]	372 m (1,220 ft)
Population  (2017) [2]
• Total	2,452
• Density	300/km2 (770/sq mi)
Name meaning	"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. ^[2] 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. ^[5]

Location

Deir Qaddis is located 15.7 kilometers (9.8 mi) 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

In the 19th century, the name Deir Qaddis was interpreted to mean "monastery of the saint". ^[3] Qaddis means a holy person and is of Aramaic origin. ^[6]

History

French explorer Victor Guérin found remains of houses built with large blocks and several cisterns dug into the rock, ^[7] while SWP (1882) notes a ruined monastery and a nearby cave. According to SWP the name of the village indicated that a convent had existed there. ^[8]

A survey by Finkelstein and Lederman uncovered no ancient pottery. ^[9]

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. ^[10] In 1838 Deir el-Kaddis was described as a village in the Beni Hasan area west of Jerusalem. ^{[11] [12] [13]}

In 1863 Guérin estimated that Deir Kaddis had about 350 inhabitants, ^[7] while an Ottoman village list from 1870 showed Der Kaddis had 36 houses and a population of 112, a count that included only men. ^{[14] [15]}

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." ^[8]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Deir Qaddis had a population of 299 inhabitants, all Muslims, ^[16] increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 368 Muslims 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]

• 
  Deir Qaddis 1944 1:20,000
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  Deir Qaddis 1945 1:250,000

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. ^[5]

According to ARIJ, Israel built three Israeli settlements on the village lands: 1818 dunams for Modi'in Illit, ^[24] 446 dunams for Nili, ^[24] 471 dunams for Na'ale. ^[24]

In 2008, access to some of the village land was cut off by the Israeli West Bank barrier. Access was restored in 2012. ^[25]

The town's prominent families are Husain, Qattosa, Nasser, Abu Zeid, Hamada, Awadh, Abu Laban and Kreish. ^[26]

References

1. Deir Qaddis Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
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.
3. Palmer, 1881, p. 228
4. The Case of Deir Qiddis village Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 10 November 2007.
5. Deir Qaddis Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 16
6. 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. 139 (2).
7. Guérin, 1875, p. 85
8. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 297
9. Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi; Bunimovitz, Shlomo (1997). Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi (eds.). Highlands of Many Cultures. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. p. 192. ISBN   965-440-007-3.
10. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 154
11. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, p. 133
12. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 66
13. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 123
14. Socin, 1879, p. 152
15. Hartmann, 1883, p. 140, also noted 36 houses
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. Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute . Retrieved 24 June 2016.
24. Deir Qaddis Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 17
25. Ocha Monthly report, 2012
26. History of Dayr Qaddis Palestine Remembered. (in Arabic)

Bibliography

• Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
• Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Finkelstein, I.; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN   965-440-007-3.
• Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
• Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
• Guérin, V. (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
• Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem türkischen Staatskalender für Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 6: 102–149.
• Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN   3-920405-41-2.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 2. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
• Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
• Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163.

External links

• Welcome To Dayr Qaddis
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Deir Qaddis Fact sheet, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
• Deir Qaddis profile, ARIJ
• Deir Qaddis aerial photo, ARIJ
• Locality Development Priorities and Needs in Deir Qaddis Village, ARIJ
• The Expansion of Kiryat Sefer Settlement on the Land of Dier 27, February, 1997, POICA
• The Israeli Occupation Milling of a Road Designated for "Military Purposes" Deir Qaddis – Ramallah Governorate 01, June, 2011, POICA
• “Israeli Piracy During the Daylight” The Israeli Bulldozers Started to Razing Lands in Deir Qiddis in order to loot more than 100 dunums of Deir Qiddis lands southwest of Ramallah 02, June, 2011, POICA