Dayr Aban

Dayr Aban
Dayr Aban
Arabic
Name Meaning	The Monastery of Aban[1]
District	Jerusalem
Coordinates	31°44′34.60″N 35°00′37.45″E / 31.742944°N 35.0104028°E / 31.742944; 35.0104028Coordinates: 31°44′34.60″N 35°00′37.45″E / 31.742944°N 35.0104028°E / 31.742944; 35.0104028
Population	2100 (1945)
Area	22,734 dunums
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 was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948. It was located 21 km west of Jerusalem. The Romans referred to place as Abenezer.

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.^[3]

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.

References

1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p.293
2. ^ Morris, 2004, p.xx, village #335. Also gives cause of depopulation.
3. ^ Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth and Kamal Abdulfattah (1977), Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century, Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, p. 119 

Bibliography

• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html 
• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5 
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521009676. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q. 
• Palmer, E. H. (1881): The survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English name lists collected during the survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and explained by E.H. Palmer.

External links

• Welcome To Dayr Aban
• Dayr Aban, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• Dayr Aban دير آبان Palestine Family.net