Dayr al-Hawa
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Dayr al-Hawa (Template:Langx) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948, by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 18.5 km west of Jerusalem.
History
Ottoman era
Dayr al-Hawa is not mentioned in 16th century records, and was likely first settled in a later period.[1]
In 1838, Edward Robinson called it a "lofty" village, on the brink of a valley.[2] It was further noted as a Muslim village, located in the District of el-Arkub, southwest of Jerusalem.[3] In 1856 the village was named D. el Hawa on Kiepert's map of Palestine published that year.[4]
Victor Guérin, visiting the village in 1863, wrote that Dayr al-Hawa "probably owes its name, monastery of the wind, to its high position".[5]
An Ottoman village list from around 1870 showed that Der el-Hawa had 32 houses and a population of 103, though the population count included men, only.[6][7]
In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as "a village standing high, on a knoll rising from a high ridge, with a deep valley to the north. It has several high houses in it. On the west is a good spring. The ground is covered with brushwood all round the place."[8]
In 1896 the population of Der el-hawa was estimated to be about 162 persons.[9]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted i by the British Mandate authorities, Dair al-Hawa had a population of 38 residents; all Muslims,[10] increasing in the 1931 census to 47 inhabitants, in 11 houses.[11]
In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 60 Muslims,[12] with a total of 5,907 dunums of land.[13] Of this, 58 dunams were for irrigable land or plantations, 1,565 for cereals,[14] while 4 dunams were built-up land.[15]
A mosque was located in the western part of the village and there was a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Sulayman. Near the ruins of the old village now stands the Israeli moshav, Nes Harim,[16] however, it is not on village land. (It is on the land of Bayt 'Itab.)[17]
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Dayr al-Hawa, Mandate survey, 1:20,000
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Dayr al-Hawa, 1945, 1:20,000
Archaeology
Coins and ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[18]
See also
References
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- ↑ 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. 364
- ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, pp. 326, 340, 342, 426
- ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 125
- ↑ Kiepert, 1856, Map of Southern Palestine
- ↑ Guerin, 1869, p. 321
- ↑ Socin, 1879, p. 152 It was noted in the Hebron district
- ↑ Hartmann, 1883, p. 145 also showed 32 houses
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, p. 24
- ↑ Schick, 1896, p. 125
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 21
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 19
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- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 102
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 152
- ↑ Zvi Dror, Har'el: Palmach brigade in Jerusalem, Ha-kibbutz ha-meuchad 2005, p. 269 (Hebrew)
- ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 286
- ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 908
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External links
- Welcome To Dayr al-Hawa
- Dayr al-Hawa, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Dayr Al-Hawa, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
Template:Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War