In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Dayr an-Nidam, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Quds of the Liwa of Al-Quds. The population was 4 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, which included wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards and fruit trees, goats and beehives in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 1200 akçe.[6] Sherds from the early Ottoman era has also been found here.[4]
In 1863 Victor Guérin visited and described it as being half ruined and inhabited only by a hundred fellahins. Several cisterns, partially filled, and a number of antique stones, scattered on the ground or reused, proved to him that it had succeeded a former locality.[7] An Ottoman village list from about 1870 found that the village had a population of 59, in a total of 17 houses, though the population count included men, only.[8][9]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small hamlet on a high point, with olives round it. It is just above the ruins of Tibneh, and water is obtained from the 'Ain Tibneh."[10]
In 1896 the population of Der en-nizam was estimated to be about 147 persons.[11]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 190 Muslims,[14] while the total land area was 1,938 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 514 were plantations and irrigable land, 483 for cereals,[16] while 31 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[17]
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 267 inhabitants.[18]
1967-present
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Deir Nidham has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 216.[19]
After the 1995 accords, 4.7% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 95.3 is defined as Area C. In 1997 Israel confiscated 604 dunums of village land for the Israeli settlement of Halamish.[20]
A secondary school exists in Deir Nidham and high school students are educated at a nearby village. Most university students attend Birzeit University or the al-Quds Open University. The electricity network in the village is affiliated with that of Jerusalem, while its water network is managed by the Palestinian National Authority.[21] A village council of seven members was established in 2005 to govern the village.[22]
Demography
Local origins
Deir Nidham is inhabited by members of the Tamimi clan, who migrated there from Hebron.[23]
^Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi; Bunimovitz, Shlomo (1997). Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi (eds.). Highlands of Many Cultures. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. p. 366. ISBN965-440-007-3.
^Socin, 1879, p. 152. Also noted that it was in the Bani Zeid district, and wondered if it could be the Muslim village Deir ed-Dam, mentioned in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 124
^Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 357
