Deir as-Sudan

Deir as-Sudan
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	دير السودان
Deir as-Sudan Location of Deir as-Sudan within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°01′59″N 35°08′54″E / 32.03306°N 35.14833°ECoordinates: 32°01′59″N 35°08′54″E / 32.03306°N 35.14833°E
Palestine grid	164/160
Governorate	Ramallah & al-Bireh
Government
• Type	Municipality
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	1,991
Name meaning	"The monastery of the negroes"[1]

Deir as-Sudan (Arabic: دير السودان‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 20 kilometers Northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of approximately 1,991 inhabitants in 2007.^[2]

Footnotes

1. Palmer, 1881, p. 229
2. 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.112.

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 290)
• Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations, Vol. III : Catalogue. BAR International Series 726. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 823 )
• Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3. (I p. 455)
• Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. (pp. 64, 112, 162 )
• Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2. (p. 116)
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163. (p. 152 )

External links

• Welcome To Dayr al-Sudan
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Deir as Sudan village (fact sheet), Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
• Deir as Sudan village profile, Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
• Deir as Sudan aerial photo, Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
• Locality Development Priorities and Needs in Deir as Sudan Village, Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)