Deir Ballut
| Deir Ballut | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | دير بلّوط |
| • Also spelled |
Dayr Ballout (official) Deir al-Ballut (unofficial) |
  Deir Ballut Location of Deir Ballut within the Palestinian territories | |
| Coordinates: 32°03′55″N 35°01′30″E / 32.06528°N 35.02500°ECoordinates: 32°03′55″N 35°01′30″E / 32.06528°N 35.02500°E | |
| Governorate | Salfit |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 3,195 |
| Name meaning | "Monastery (or Convent) of the Oak"[1] |
Deir Ballut (Arabic: دير بلّوط) is a Palestinian town located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 41 kilometers (25 mi) south west of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 3,195 in 2007.[2]
History
Sherds from the Iron Age, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad/Abbasid and Crusader/Ayyubid eras have been found here.[3]
Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi records in 1226, while Deir Ballut was under Mamluk rule, "Deir al-Ballut was a village of district around ar-Ramla."[4]
Ottoman era
In 1870 Victor Guérin found it to be a village of one hundred and fifty people. However, judging by the extent of the ruins that covered the hill where it stood, Guérin thought it had once been a large city. Most houses were built with large stones.[5]
In 1882 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a small village, partly ruinous, but evidently once a place of greater importance, with rock-cut tombs. The huts are principally of stone. The water supply is from wells."[6] To the west of the village are rock-tombs, from a Christian age.[7]
British Mandate era
Deir Ballut was the site of minor engagement between Turkish and British troops on the March 12, 1918.
In the a 1922 census of Palestine Deir Ballut had a population of 384 inhabitants, all Muslim,[8] rising to 532 in the 1931 census, still all Muslim, in a total of 91 houses.[9]
In 1945 the population was 720, all Muslim[10] while the total land area was 14,789 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 508 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 3,488 for cereals,[12] while 63 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[13]
1948-1967
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Deir Ballut came under Jordanian rule.
Post-1967
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Deir Ballut has been under Israeli occupation.
References
- ↑ Palmer 1881, p. 228
- ↑ 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 112.
- ↑ Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 242
- ↑ le Strange, 1890, p. 428.
- ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 130
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 284
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 313
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 26
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 60
- ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 155
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3.
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). 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.
- Strange, le, Guy (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links
- Welcome To Dayr Ballut
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- New Colonial Activity in Deir Ballut Village - Salfit District 12, March, 2000, ARIJ
- War against trees and sheep 10, March, 2004, ARIJ
- Israeli brought wild pigs destroy tens of dunums in Deir Ballut plain 30, July, 2006, ARIJ
- Kfar Ad Dik and Deir Ballut in Salfit Governorate receive New Land confiscation Order 10, January, 2007, ARIJ
- Deir Ballut's fruitful olive trees cut for Wall Constructions 03, March, 2007, ARIJ
- New Military Orders to Halt Construction of Seven Palestinian Houses in the Village of Deir Ballut 01, October, 2007, ARIJ
- The Israeli Army to demolish an under-construction school in Deir Ballut Village 14, February, 2008, ARIJ
- New house demolition orders in Deir Ballut village 19, June, 2008, ARIJ
- Palestinian homes due to be demolished over 'lack of permits' pretext in Deir Ballut Village 22, September, 2010, ARIJ
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