From the Pages of the Defter (ص 146)

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harvested surplus it could sell or barter, with an average of 133 dunams of field-crop land to till
and farm and 28.8 olive trees per household, as well as a dunam or two of figs.
Surif
Surif, a large village with 125 residences situated at the northern end of the Hebron plateau,
had relatively little agricultural land in relation to other villages its size in the district, according
to the Emlak register. With the exception of olives, of which the village registered 1,480 trees
en bloc, villagers decided to register their agricultural lands individually. These properties were
comprised of garden plots, field-crop land, fig trees, and vineyards, totaling 6,588.75 dunams.
The overwhelming majority of this property was field-crop land; the other properties covered
just 355.75 dunams.
Five individuals in the village registered unusually large, single parcels of field-crop land
alongside their other agricultural properties. ‘Uthman b. Na ‘im Safi, Safi b. ‘Awdallah Lafi, and
Salman b. Salim ‘Ara‘r each registered a plot of 850 dunams. Muhammad b. Hassan registered,
together with a partner, a plot of 1,250 dunams, and Nufal b. Salih ‘Adwan registered a plot of
1,275 dunams.”*° The location of these properties is not distinctly specified; in Surif, all village
properties were registered as being located “on the edges of the village” (atrdaf al-balad). It
would appear that each of these five properties was a large, contiguous parcel. Except for en
bloc lands and some of the musha entries, about which detailed information is not given, one
contiguous parcel per entry is an observable pattern throughout the register. Distinct plots or
236 Feas-1 Emlak Surif entries 194-198.
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