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Deir as-Sudan
Deir as-Sudan
Municipality type C
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 / 32.03306°N 35.14833°E
Palestine grid	164/160
State	State of Palestine
Governorate	Ramallah and al-Bireh
Government
• Type	Municipality
Population (2017)
• Total	2,159
Name meaning	"The monastery of the negroes"

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]

Location

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]

History

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]

References

^ ^a ^b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
^ Palmer, 1881, p. 229
^ Deir as Sudan village profile, ARIJ, p. 4
^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 823
^ ^a ^b ^c Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 455
^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 116
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 124
^ Socin, 1879, p. 152 It was also noted to be in the Beni Zeid district.
^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 107; also noted 22 houses
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 290
^ Schick, 1896, p. 124
^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. 16
^ Mills, 1932, p. 49
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 112
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 162
^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
^ Deir as Sudan village profile, ARIJ, p. 16