Khirbet Sir

This article is about the Palestinian village in Qalqilya district. For the village in Jenin district, see Sir, Jenin.
Khirbet Sir
Municipality type C
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicخربة صير
Khirbet Sir is located in State of Palestine
Khirbet Sir
Khirbet Sir
Location of Sir within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°11′49″N 35°03′38″E / 32.19694°N 35.06056°E / 32.19694; 35.06056
Palestine grid155/178
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateQalqilya
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total
645
Name meaningThe ruin of the fold[2]

Khirbet Sir (Arabic: خربة صير) is a Palestinian town in the Qalqilya Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located 8 kilometers east of Qalqilya.

Following its destruction and abandonment due to 16th-century local conflict, Khirbet Sir was likely resettled in the early 20th century by people from Hajjah.[3] In 2017, it was home to 645 residents.[1]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

Sir was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine. In 1596, it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b, part of Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 10 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives, and a customary tax on subjects in Nablus region; a total of 7,000 akçe. Half of the revenue went to a Waqf.[5]

The village was destroyed and abandoned as a result of a local conflict in the 16th century.[6]

In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) noted at Khurbet Sir: "two rock cut tombs, a large mound with terraces cut in the sides, a good well below; has every appearance of an ancient site."[7]

Modern era

It is likely that Khirbet Sir was resettled in the early 20th century by individuals from Hajjah. In 1931, it was listed as a khirbet (temporal settlement) of Hajjah.[3]

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Sir came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 235 inhabitants in Kh. Sir.[8]

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Sir has been under Israeli occupation.

  • Khirbet Sir 1943 1:20,000
    Khirbet Sir 1943 1:20,000
  • Khirbet Sir 1945 1:250,000
    Khirbet Sir 1945 1:250,000

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 186
  3. ^ a b 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. 346
  4. ^ Dauphin, 1998, pp. 798–9
  5. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 140
  6. ^ 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. 346
  7. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 198
  8. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25

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