Deir Ballut
| Deir Ballut | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | دير بلّوط |
| • Also spelled | Dayr Ballout (official) Deir al-Ballut (unofficial) |
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| Coordinates: 32°03′55″N 35°01′30″E / 32.06528°N 35.02500°ECoordinates: 32°03′55″N 35°01′30″E / 32.06528°N 35.02500°E | |
| Governorate | Salfit |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 3,195 |
| Name meaning | "Monastery (or Convent) of the Oak" |
Deir Ballut (Arabic: دير بلّوط) is a Palestinian town located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 41 kilometers (25 mi) south west of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 3,195 in 2007.
Sherds from the Iron Age, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad/Abbasid and Crusader/Ayyubid eras have been found here.
Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi records in 1226, while Deir Ballut was under Mamluk rule, "Deir al-Ballut was a village of district around ar-Ramla."
In 1870 Victor Guérin found it to be a village of one hundred and fifty people. However, judging by the extent of the ruins that covered the hill where it stood, Guérin thought it had once been a large city. Most houses were built with large stones.
In 1882 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a small village, partly ruinous, but evidently once a place of greater importance, with rock-cut tombs. The huts are principally of stone. The water supply is from wells." To the west of the village are rock-tombs, from a Christian age.
Deir Ballut was the site of minor engagement between Turkish and British troops on the March 12, 1918.
In the a 1922 census of Palestine Deir Ballut had a population of 384 inhabitants, all Muslim, rising to 532 in the 1931 census, still all Muslim, in a total of 91 houses.
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