From the Pages of the Defter (ص 148)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 148)

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‘Abd al-Rahman b. Hamdan Far’s three plots of land amounted to just eighteen dunams.*”"
Ahmad b. Nasar Ahmad also registered eighteen dunams, but it was all located within one plot
of field-crop land.?"?
Nahalin
Ten kilometers southwest of Bethlehem and today belonging to the Bethlehem district, Nahalin
registered all its lands to individuals in 1876. The village was comprised of twenty-five
residences (hanes and odas) varying widely in value. Two were valued at 3,000 or more kurus;
seven fell in the 2,000 — 2,500 value range; four residences were valued at between 1,000 and
1,250 kurus; and the remaining twelve were evaluated at between 500 and 750 kurus.
On Nahalin’s registered agricultural lands, grains, vegetables, figs, and olives were
grown. The village appears not to have had much field-crop land. Rather, its wealth was in figs,
which were valued at 2,000 kurus per dunam. Two villagers appear to have claimed
responsibility for collecting the vergi on most of the village’s gardens, figs, and field-crop land.
Shaykh Hassan b. ‘Abdallah and ‘Aliyan b. Muhammad Yasin each registered in his name twelve
dunams of vegetable gardens, twenty-five dunams of fig trees, and 185 dunams of tarla. An
individual named ‘Ali b. ‘Aliyan appears to have been a third, somewhat lesser partner in this
arrangement, even though the Emlak register states he had migrated north to the larger village
of Bayt ‘Itab. In his name were registered 197 dunams of field-crop land, divided between one
241 Esas-1 Emlak Surif entries 130, 142, 172.
*"2F sas-1 Emlak Surif entry 184.
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