Deir Jarir

Deir Jarir
Other transcription(s)
Deir Jarir, in 2013
Deir Jarir Location of Deir Jarir
Coordinates: 31°57′52″N 35°17′45″E / 31.96444°N 35.29583°E / 31.96444; 35.29583Coordinates: 31°57′52″N 35°17′45″E / 31.96444°N 35.29583°E / 31.96444; 35.29583
Palestine grid	178/152
Name meaning	The monastery or house of Jerir
Website	http://www.deirjarir.ps

Deir Jarir (Arabic: دير جرير‎‎) is a Palestinian agricultural town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, located eleven kilometers (7 miles) northeast of Ramallah. It is situated on a hilltop overlooking the Jordan Valley at an elevation of 900 metres (2,950 ft). According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Deir Jarir had a population of approximately 3,986 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.

It spreads along a large land area of 33,357 dunams (33.357 km²), of which 17.2% is under the civil jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), while the remainder is under Israeli military control. Most of the land administered by the PNA is the city's built-up area and most of Deir Jarir's cultivated lands are grown with grape vines and fig and olive trees. Open-spaces make-up 76% of the town's area.

The village name means The monastery, or house of Jerir, named after the celebrated Arab poet Jarir.

Sherds from the Mamluk era have been found here.

In 1517, Deir Jarir was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared (with the name Dar Jarir) in the tax registers as being in the nahiya of Quds in the liwa of Quds. It had a population of 23 households, all Muslim. Taxes were paid on wheat, barley, olives, vineyards, fruit trees, occasional revenues, goats and/or bee hives. Shards from the early Ottoman era have also been found.