Deir Siryan

According to E. H. Palmer, the name Deir es Suriân means "the convent of the Syrian".[1] In 1596, it was named as a village, Dayr Siryan, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 10 households and 1 bachelor, all Muslim.The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats, beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 2,952 akçe.[2][3] In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan found here remains of old buildings and a cistern."[6] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a village, built of stone, containing about 200 Metawileh, situated on the plain and surrounded by small gardens and arable land.