From the Pages of the Defter (ص 113)

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are immediately apparent. First, although the highest-valued hanes are almost
unexceptionally valued higher than the highest-valued odas, on the low end of the scale
there is no value distinction between hanes and odas. Secondly, the range of housing values
in the villages, regardless of the size of their population, suggests significant socioeconomic
stratification was a characteristic feature of Hebron’s rural society.
Table 2.3
Sample housing-value ranges across the Hebron district, 1876
Highest valued Lowest valued Average
Village #hanes #odas hane / oda hane / oda residence value
Dura 58 262 7,500 / 5,000 125 /125 753.5
Nuba 61 3,000 / 3,000 500 / 250 1,083.3
Jaba‘ 2,500 / 875 750 / 500 1,062
Source: 1292 M (1876) Esas-! Emlak register
The data in Table 2.2 is generalizable to the district as a whole. In most villages, there were
more odas than hanes. In one-fifth of the fifty villages, though, there were more hanes than
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odas.” Across the district there were a total of 2,438 odas and only 1,208 hanes.7®? The
"87 There were eleven such villages. They are: Dir Aban (102 hanes / 69 odas), S’air (66 / 42), Bant N’aim
(81 / 8), Shuyukh (with 41 hanes and no odas), Ras Abu ‘Amar (21 / 18), Husan (26 / 10), Kasla (26 / 7),
Zayta (16 / 9), Qabu (12 / 2), and Jab’a (8 / 4). In the eleventh village, Samu’, the register data is
incomplete. Only for the first twenty of the vilage’s buildings were categories (hane, courtyard, cave,
etc.) recorded. Among these twenty, all the residences were hanes.
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