Deir as-Sudan

In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Dair Sudan, located in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Al-Quds. The population was 14 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 3,400 akçe.[6] Pottery from the early Ottoman era have also been found here.[5]

In 1838, it was noted as a Muslim village in the Beni Zeid district, north of Jerusalem.[7]

An Ottoman village list of about 1870 indicated 22 houses and a population of 90, though the population count included men, only.[8][9]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Deir es Sudan as: "A village of moderate size, with a well to the west, on the slope of a hill, with olive-groves round it."[10]

In 1896 the population of Der es-sudan was estimated to be about 153 persons.[11]

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village, named Dair Al-Sudan, had a population of 173, all Muslim,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 243 Muslims, in 53 houses.[13]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Deir es Sudan was 280 Muslims,[14] with 4,498 dunams (4.5 km²; 1.7 sq mi) of land under their jurisdiction, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 2,416 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 841 were for cereals,[16] while 15 dunams (1.5 ha; 3.7 acres) were built-up (urban) land.[17]

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Deir as-Sudan came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 486 inhabitants in Deir as-Sudan.[18]

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Deir as-Sudan has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 57.2% of the village's total area has been defined as Area A land, 6.5% as Area B land, while the remaining 36.3% is Area C.[19]