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part of the village’s properties 4,086 olive trees. °° Unsurprisingly, Dayr Aban was one of the
biggest olive-producing villages in Hebron, surpassed only by Zakariyya to the southwest,
which had just four presses but registered, also en bloc as property of the village 12,136
olive trees.”* Fifteen stables (akhdr) were registered in the district. Again, a large
concentration of them, seven, were found in one village: Bayt ‘Itab, which was about four
kilometers east of Dayr Aban and approximately twelve kilometers west-northwest of
Bethlehem and Bayt Jala. A road through Bayt ‘Itab led, after some four kilometers, to the
‘82 Seventy-nine samanligs, used for the
Bethlehem-Bayt Jibrin road south of the village.
storage of hay, were registered in twenty-seven different villages. Another common
property registered in the district was ‘arsas which, by definition, were courtyards or open
plots of land within a village.’®? Forty-nine were recorded in the district. The greatest
concentrations were recorded in the south. Fourteen ‘arsas were registered in Yatta. These
were valued between 250 and 750 kurus, in 250-kurus increments. And eleven were
registered in Sa‘ir, valued at 250, 375, 500, 750, or 1,000 kurus.
180 ISA, Esas-i Emlak, entries # 3013-3014. Dayr Aban, like the other villages in its vicinity, were all
depopulated in the HaHar expedition of October 1948, then destroyed. On this village, see Khalidi, 282-
283.
"81 ISA, Esas-! Emlak, entry #2299. Zakariyya was also depopulated in the Nakba. The moshav Zekharia was
established on village lands in 1950. (Khalidi, 224-226).
*82 Frederick John Salmon, British Survey of Palestine maps, 1935-1938. 1:100,000 series Palestine, Sheet
9: Ramla.
"83 Semseddin Sami dictionary (1985), 299.
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