From the Pages of the Defter (ص 114)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 114)

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assessed values of both odas and hanes vary substantially within villages; we find this
diversity repeated from settlement to settlement, almost without exception. The lowest-
valued residences in the district were the occasional humble (perhaps one-room?) odas
valued at 125 kurus. Otherwise, oda values varied on average from 250 kurus to 1,500 kurus
and most often consisted of one, sometimes two, and sometimes three musakkafat. In
Halhul, for example, we find an oda of 3 musakkafat, unusually valued at 3,500 kurus. It was
the highest-valued residence in town. In Dhahriyya we also find an oda assessed at 3,500
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kurus, similarly valued higher than any of the hanes in the village.” Actually, these two odas
were valued higher than the majority of hanes in the district, as well."
The largest and highest-valued residence in the Hebron region was a complex
registered to Muhammad b ‘Abdallah al-‘Azze of Bayt Jibrin, a throne village in the western
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foothills of the Hebron district." It was a 7-musakkafat hane valued at 20,000 kurus.*”
*88 To this must be added 41 residences in Samt’ that were not categorized. They were all on the same
register page, the second of three pages of residences in the village. This omission appears to have been
scribal error.
"89 In Dhahriyya musakkafat were not recorded.
‘°° The oda in Halhul was owned by Ahmad b. Muhammad Hamad. The one in Dhahariyya belonged to
Ibrahim b. ‘Isa Sabar.
‘8! Bayt Jibrin stood at an important crossroads between the plains and the hills and was on the Gaza-
Hebron road. It and Dura were the “throne villages” of the Hebron district. Bayt Jibrin was second in size
only to Dura. In 1876, the village registered 194 residences, two (olive) presses, one mosque and two
sufi lodges, among its village structures. It also registered 21,768 dunams of communally held crop-land,
and individual villagers registered gardens, fruit trees and orchards in their names. In 1948, the town
was ethnically cleansed. An Israeli settlement called Beit Guvrin was established on the site in 1949. On
crown villages, see Amiry (2003).
192 ISA, Esas-i Emlak, entry # 1829.
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