Meiser

Meiser (Arabic: ميسر‎; Hebrew: מֵיסִר‎, also known as Shaykh Maysar or Khirbat Maysar) is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located half a kilometre west of the Green Line, north of the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in the triangle area of Wadi Ara, it is one of three Arab villages under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 2,017.[1]

Meiser

מֵיסִר‎
ميسر
Hebrew transcription(s)
 • unofficialShaykh Maysar, Shaykh Maysir, Khirbat Maysar
Meiser
Meiser
Coordinates: 32°26′41″N 35°2′31″E
Grid position203/705 ITM
154/205 PAL
Country Israel
DistrictHaifa
CouncilMenashe
Population
 (2019)[1]
2,017
Name meaningSheikh Meisir, p.n.; meaning a certain gambling game with arrows.[2]

History

Remains from the Early Roman era (end of the first century BCE–beginning of the first century CE) have been found here.[3][4][5]

Three strata from the Roman-Byzantine periods was excavated in the centre of the village.[6] A bathhouse, dating from the same time, has also been found.[7]

Ceramics and other remains from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4][8][9]

An excavation revealed remains dating from the end of the Byzantine period (7th century CE), and above it were remains of a residential house from the Abbasid period (9th–10th centuries CE).[10]

Ottoman era

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found at Sheikh Meisir "foundations near a modern Mukam" (Muslim tomb).[11] In spite of this, Andrew Petersen, who inspected the Maqam in 1994, suggested "that the building may be considerably older than the nineteenth century."[12]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kherbet Maisir had a population of 49 Muslims.[13]

In the 1945 statistics Meiser was counted with Qaffin and Kh. el Aqaba, together they had a population of 1,570 Muslims,[14] with a land area of 23,755 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 5,863 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 8,371 were used for cereals,[16] while 40 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[17]

  • Meiser 1942 1:20,000
  • Meiser 1945 1:250,000

See also

References
  1. "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. Palmer, 1881, p. 152
  3. Dagot, 2007, Horbat Mesar
  4. Zertal, 2016, pp. 292-294
  5. Massarwa, 2010, Horbat Mesar
  6. Sa‘id, 2009, Horbat Mesar
  7. Tabar and Gendelman, 2013, Horbat Mesar
  8. Dauphin, 1998, p. 752
  9. Massarwa, 2009, Horbat Mesar (North)
  10. Sa‘id, 2008, Horbat Mesar
  11. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 68
  12. Petersen, 2001, p. 283
  13. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
  14. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 76
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 127
  17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 177

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