Deir as-Sudan
Municipality type C in Ramallah and al-Bireh, State of Palestine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deir as-Sudan (Arabic: دير السودان) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 20 kilometers Northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of approximately 2,159 inhabitants in 2017.[1]
Deir as-Sudan | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | دير السودان |
 Deir as-Sudan | |
  Deir as-Sudan Location of Deir as-Sudan within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°01′59″N 35°08′54″E | |
| Palestine grid | 164/160 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Ramallah and al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,159 |
| Name meaning | "The monastery of the negroes"[2] |
Deir as Sudan is located 14.7 kilometers (9.1 mi) northwest of Ramallah. It is bordered by Ajjul to the east, Bani Zeid al-Sharqiya to the north, Kafr Ein to the west, Umm Safa and An Nabi Salih to the south.[3]
Ceramic sherds from the Byzantine,[4] Crusader/Ayyubid[5] and Mamluk[5] eras have been found here.
Ottoman era
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]
British Mandate era
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]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Deir as-Sudan came under Jordanian occupation.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 486 inhabitants in Deir as-Sudan.[18]
1967-present
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]
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