Fardisya
فرديسيا | |
|---|---|
| Etymology: Paradise[1] | |
.jpg) 1870s map .jpg) 1940s map.jpg) modern map .jpg) 1940s with modern overlay mapA series of historical maps of the area around Fardisya (click the buttons) | |
  Fardisya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°16′41″N 35°00′47″E / 32.27806°N 35.01306°E | |
| Palestine grid | 151/187 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Tulkarm |
| Date of depopulation | April 1, 1948 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,092 dunams (1.092 km2 or 270 acres) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 20[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Sha'ar Efraim[4] |
Fardisya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south of Tulkarm.
It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing, and was mostly destroyed with the exception of a single deserted house.
Today the area where the village stood been subsumed into the Arab-Israeli town of Tayibe.
Achaelological excavations have recovered ceramics from the Iron Age (c. tenth century BCE), and a sarcophagus from the Roman era.[5][6]
The Crusaders referred to Fardisya as Phardesi.[4] In 1207–08 the Hospitallers received from Lady Juliana of Caesarea the villages of Pharaon (Far´un) and Seingibis (Khirbat Nisf Jubail);[7] Phardesi marked the southern boundary of these lands.[8]
In 1265, Fardisya was among the villages and estates sultan Baibars allocated to his emirs after he had expelled the Crusaders, with the whole of Fardisya given to his emir Saif al-Din Baidaghan al-Rukni.[9]
Potsherds from the Mamluk era have also been found here.[6]
Fardisa was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 83, (13 households and 2 bachelors), all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 33% various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 5,000 akçe. All the revenues went to a waqf.[4][10]
In 1838, Furdisia was noted as a village in the Beni Sa'ab area, west of Nablus.[11] In 1870, Victor Guérin noted that the village was situated on a hill.[12]
In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the village an agricultural plot of land called Ghabat Fardisya in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar. Al-Ghaba) in the coastal plain, west of the village.[13] The name of Ghabat is Fardisya is preserved in the name of the modern Jewish settlement of Pardesiya.[14]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Bani Sa'b.[15]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described "a small village near the edge of the hills, remarkable only from a palm growing at it.”[16]
In the 1922 census of Palestine there were 15 villagers, all Muslim,[17] increasing in the 1931 census to 55 Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.[18]
In the 1945 statistics, Fardisiya had a population of 20 Muslims[2] with a total of 1,092 dunums of land.[3] Of this, a total of 187 dunams were plantations and irrigated land, 388 dunums were for cereals,[19] while 19 dunams were classified as “built-up” areas.[20]
The moshav Sha'ar Efraim is close to some of Fardisya's lands.[4]
