From the Pages of the Defter (ص 104)
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categories could represent. First, however, the following section sketches in broad outline
the building scape, if you will, of the district’s villages in 1876.
Villages in the Hebron district
The fifty villages of Hebron in 1876 varied considerably in terms of population, village
amenities, landed wealth, and the ways they chose to register that wealth in the emlak
register. The smallest village in the district was Sufla. This tiny settlement of seven
residences was located in the northern part of the district, 18.5 kilometers west-southwest
of Jerusalem. Throughout the British mandate era the town would belong to the Jerusalem
administrative district. Sufla’s seven residences varied in value from 500 kurus to 2,000
kurus. In 1931, ten houses would be counted in the village, and by 1944/45, Sufla’s recorded
population would reach sixty individuals. Israel destroyed the village after assailing it in
October 1948.*°8 In 1876, fifty-eight dunams of garden plots (hakydre) on the edges of Sufla
were recorded in the emlak register. These were divided among fourteen plots registered to
nine villagers. The largest of these landowners was Ahmad b. ‘Isa Wadi, whose three garden
plots totaled eighteen dunams. All the village’s garden plots were valued at 500 kurus per
dunam, meaning his landed worth was valued at 9,000 kurus. Additionally the village
*°8 Walid Khalidi, All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
(Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992), 319; Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of
Land and Area Ownership in Palestine, With Explanatory Notes by Sami Hadawi, Official Land Valuer and
Inspector of Tax Assessments of the Palestine Government (Beirut: Palestine Liberation Organization
Research Center: 1970), Table 1.
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