Deir Qaddis
| Deir Qaddis | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | دير قديس |
| • Also spelled | Deir Qiddis (official) Dayr Qaddis (unofficial) |
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| Coordinates: 31°56′58″N 35°02′44″E / 31.94944°N 35.04556°ECoordinates: 31°56′58″N 35°02′44″E / 31.94944°N 35.04556°E | |
| Palestine grid | 154/150 |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| • Head of Municipality | Fares Ibrahim |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 8,207 dunams (8.2 km2 or 3.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 1,942 |
| Name meaning | "Monastery of the saint" |
Deir Qaddis (Arabic: دير قديس) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, located sixteen kilometers west of Ramallah. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of approximately 1,942 inhabitants in 2007. The town consists of 8,207 dunams, of which 438 dunams are classified as built-up area. As a result of the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, 8.9% of Deir Qaddis' land was transferred to the Palestinian National Authority, but Israel still retains full control of 91.1% of the town.
Deir Qaddis means the "monastery of the saint". French explorer Victor Guérin found in the Kharbet (=ruin) Deir Kaddis remains of houses built with large blocks and several cisterns dug into the rock, while SWP (1882) notes a ruined monastery and cave near by the village, and that the name of the village indicates that a convent once existed here.
The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as Dayr Qiddis in the Nahiya of Ramlah of the Liwa of Gazza. It had a population of 11 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive- and fruit trees, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes.
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