From the Pages of the Defter (ص 105)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 105)

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communally registered more than 300 olive trees, an average of about fifty trees per
residence owner.”
The largest village in the district was Dura, located in the center of the Hebron
plateau to the west of Hebron. According to the emlak register there were 320 residences in
the village in 1876, as well as a mosque (cami), a fountain (cesme), and two tomb-shrines. By
1922, the village’s population would rise to 5,834, and in 1931, to 7,255.°° In 2007, Dura’s
‘7! In 1876, Dura’s recorded lands included more than
population approached 30,000.
100,000 dunams of field-crop land (tar/a) suitable for growing grains and cereals such as
wheat, barley, and dhurra. All this agricultural land was registered to individuals, part as
property and part as shares in musha. Also registered to individuals were more than 1,000
dunams of vineyards, 136 dunams of olive groves, more than 200 dunams of orchards, and
almost 300 dunams of garden plots. Additionally, the village registered close to 850 dunams
of field-crop land in Rihiyya, a mezra‘ south of the village. Dura’s lands in Rihiyya were
registered to Dura villagers en bloc, as musha. Among large landowners in Dura were the
offspring of the deceased Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahman ‘Amr, whose infamy is legendary both in
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folklore and scholarly histories of Palestine.”’“ Among his children’s lands in Dura as
169 . . . .
Communal, en bloc registrations will be discussed below.
170 Dabbagh, 188.
‘71 DA CBS, 61.
*”? See, for example, Moshe Ma’oz, Ottoman Reform in Syria and Palestine 1840-1861: The Impact of the
Tanzimat on Politics and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968); Schdlch, Transformation.
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