Deir 'Ammar

Deir 'Ammar (Arabic: دير عمار‎) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 17 km (11 mi) northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,414 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[3]

Deir 'Ammar
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicدير عمار
Deir 'Ammar
Deir 'Ammar
Location of Deir 'Ammar within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°58′01″N 35°06′07″E
Palestine grid159/152
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateRamallah and al-Bireh
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Elevation531 m (1,742 ft)
Population
 (2006)
 • Total2,414
Name meaningThe monastery of the builder[2]

Deir 'Ammar, together with Beitillu and Jammala, form the new town of Al-Ittihad.[1]

Location of Al-Ittihad

Al-Itihad is located 12.5 kilometers (7.8 mi) northwest of Ramallah. Al-Itihad is bordered by Kobar and Al-Zaytouneh to the east, Deir Abu Mash'al, Deir Nidham and 'Abud to the north, Shabtin and Deir Qaddis to the west, and Ras Karkar, Kharbatha Bani Harith, Al-Zaytouneh and Al Janiya to the south.[1]

History

Potsherds from the Middle Bronze Age, Iron Age I, Iron Age II, Hellenistic, Roman and Mamluk eras have been found at Deir 'Ammar.[4]

Ottoman era

Dayr Ammar was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the nahiya of Al-Quds in the liwa of Al-Quds. It had a population of 33 household; who were all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 10,400 akçe. All of the revenue went to a Waqf.[5] Potsherds from the early Ottoman era have also been found here.[4]

In 1838 Deir Ammar was noted as Muslim village in the Beni Harith district, north of Jerusalem.[6]

In May, 1870, Victor Guérin found the village to be of equal importance to Jammala, and that there was a stream between the two villages where the women went for water when their own cisterns went dry.[7] An official Ottoman village list from about the same year, 1870, showed that Der Ammar had 35 houses and a population of 226, though the population count included only men.[8][9]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described 'Deir Ammar as: "a village of medium size on a hill, with a well about 1/2 mile to the west."[10]

In 1896 the population of Der Ammar was estimated to be about 357 persons.[11]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Dair 'Ammar had a population of 265 Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 316 Muslims in 81 houses.[13]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 350 Muslims,[14] while the total land area was 7,189 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 2,242 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,615 for cereals,[16] while 15 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[17]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Deir 'Ammar came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 2,243 inhabitants in Deir 'Ammar.[18]

1967-present

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Deir 'Ammar came under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 41.2% of Al-Ittihad land was classified as Area B, while the remaining 58.8% was classified as Area C. Israel has confiscated 858 dunams of land from Al-Ittihad for the construction of 4 Israeli settlements: Nahl'iel, Na'aleh, Talmon and Hallamish.[19]

References
  1. Al-Itihad Town Profile (Beitillu, Jammala & Deir 'Ammar), ARIJ, pp. 4-5
  2. Palmer, 1881, p. 228
  3. Projected Mid -Year Population for Ramallah & Al Bireh Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
  4. Finkelstein et al, 1997, pp. 224-225
  5. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 120
  6. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, 2nd Appendix, p. 124
  7. Guérin, 1875, pp. 82-83
  8. Socin, 1879, p. 151. It was also noted that it was in the Beni Harit district
  9. Hartmann, 1883, p. 126 noted 53 houses
  10. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 294
  11. Schick, 1896, p. 124
  12. Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. 16
  13. Mills, 1932, p. 48.
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 111
  17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 161
  18. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 15
  19. Al-Itihad Town Profile (Beitillu, Jammala & Deir 'Ammar), ARIJ, pp. 16-17

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