Dayr Aban
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Name meaning | The Monastery of Aban[1] |
Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
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Palestine grid | 151/127 |
Population | 2100 (1945) |
Area | 22,734 dunams |
Date of depopulation | October 19-20, 1948[2] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Current localities | Tzor'a, Machseya, Beyt Shemesh, and Yish'i |
Dayr Aban (also spelled Deir Aban) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict, located on the lower slope of a high ridge that formed the western slope of a mountain, to the east of Beit Shemesh. It was formerly bordered by olive trees to the north, east, and west. The valley, Wadi en-Najil, ran north and south on the west-side of the village. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948, under Operation Ha-Har. It was located 21 km west of Jerusalem. In pre-Roman and Roman times the settlement was referred to as Abenezer.[3]
In 1596, Dayr Aban appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds. It had a population of 23 Muslim households and 23 Christian households. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, and goats or beehives.[4]
Victor Guérin described the village in the 19th century as being a large village, and its adjacent valley "strewn with sesame."[5]
In 1945, the village had a total population of 2,100. Dayr Abban had a mosque and a pipeline transporting water from 'Ayn Marjalayn, 5 km to the east. The village contains three khirbats: Khirbat Jinna'ir, Khirbat Haraza, and Khirbat al-Suyyag.
Today, near the site of the old village, is built the moshav, Mahseya.[6]
Etymology
The prefix "Dayr" which appears in many village names is of Aramaic and Syriac-Aramaic origin, and has the connotation of "habitation," or "dwelling place," usually given to places where there was once a Christian population, or settlement of monks. In most cases, a monastery was formerly built there, and, throughout time, the settlement expanded.[7] Dayr Aban would, therefore, literally mean, "the Monastery of Aban."
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External links
- Welcome To Dayr Aban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Dayr Aban, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
- Dayr Aban دير آبان Palestine Family.net
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- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p.293
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #335. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ↑ C.R. Conder, Notes from the Memoir, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, vol. 18, London 1876, p. 149; Conder & Kitchener, The Survey of Western Palestine, vol. iii (Judaea), London 1883, p. 24
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 119
- ↑ Victor Guérin,Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (Judaea. Third Volume), Paris 1869, p. 323
- ↑ Yalqut Teiman, Yosef Tobi and Shalom Seri (editors), Tel-Aviv 2000, p. 158, s.v. מחסיה (Hebrew) ISBN 965-7121-03-5
- ↑ Al-Shabeshti, Diyārāt (Monasteries).