Dayr Aban

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Dayr Aban
Dayr Aban is located in Mandatory Palestine
Dayr Aban
Dayr Aban
Name meaning The Monastery of Aban[1]
Subdistrict Jerusalem
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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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  1. Palmer, 1881, p.293
  2. Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #335. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  3. 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
  4. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 119
  5. Victor Guérin,Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (Judaea. Third Volume), Paris 1869, p. 323
  6. Yalqut Teiman, Yosef Tobi and Shalom Seri (editors), Tel-Aviv 2000, p. 158, s.v. מחסיה (Hebrew) ISBN 965-7121-03-5
  7. Al-Shabeshti, Diyārāt (Monasteries).