Daburiyya

 ( Arab Localities In Israel ) 

Daburiyya (; ),Palmer, 1881, p. 125 also Deburieh or Dabburieh, is an Arab local council around east of Nazareth in Israel's Northern District. Daburriya gained local council status in 1961. Its jurisdiction extends over 7,200 . In it had a population of ; 99.8% of the population was Muslim and 0.2% was Christian.

Daburiyya is located off of Highway 65 at the foot of Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee, near the area where the prophetess Deborah judged.

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History

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Ancient period Daburiyya is identified with the biblical city of DaberathNegev and Gibson, 2001, p 130 (also spelled Davrat), which in and in the Book of Chronicles was allotted to the tribe of Issachar, who gave it as a Levitical city to the Levites.Keil, 1857, p. 424.Sharon, 2004, pp. 1–4

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Classical period During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the Greek name of the place was Dabráth or Dabiroth and its Latin name was Dabareth. Josephus called it Dabarittha (Greek: Δαβαρίθθων, "Dabarithon").Josephus, The Jewish War (Book II, chapter XXI, verse 3).

During the first year of the Great Jewish Revolt, in 66 CE, a group of young men from Dabaritta ambushed Ptolemy, the financial overseer of King Agrippa II, and his sister Berenice, stealing valuable items including rich robes, silver goblets, and gold coins. They brought the loot to Josephus in Tarichaea, expecting praise, but Josephus reprimanded them, intending to return the stolen goods to Agrippa, which led the young men to accuse Josephus of treachery and incite disturbances against him.

Guy MacLean Rogers (2025). 9780300248135, Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300248135

In the early 4th-century CE Onomasticon, Eusebius refers to the place as Dabeira and Dabrath, and describes it as "a village of Jews".

Moshe Sharon (1997). 9789004110069, Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004110069

Daburiyya has been identified by some with the locality of Helenopolis of the Roman-Byzantine period,Abel, 1938, vol. 2, pp. 205, 347 but Helenopolis is more commonly identified with Kafr KamaTsafrir, Di Segni and Green, 1994, p. 142 or another town or region.Petersen, 2005, p. X

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Crusaders After being part of the Crusades Kingdom of Jerusalem, Daburiyya was retaken by Saladin in 1187Abu Shama (RHC or, IV, pp. 301, 303), cited in Pringle, 1993, p. 192 and a mosque, possibly built above an old Crusader tower,Pringle, 1997, p. 46 has an inscription above the entrance stating that it was built in AH 610 (1214 CE) by the Damascus-based Ayyubid dynasty ruler al-Mu'azzam 'Isa.Petersen, 2001, p. 131 What was interpreted as remains of a Crusader church could still be seen in the 18th century in the center of Daburiyya.Pococke, 1745, vol 2, p. 65; cited in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 210Pringle, 1993, pp. 192, 193

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Ottoman Empire In 1517, the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596 Dabburiya appeared in the Ottoman Defter as being in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Tabariyya under Safad Sanjak, with a population of 40 households and 3 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat and barley, fruit trees, cotton, as well as on goats and/or beehives; a total of 5,500 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 189Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied from the Safad-district was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9

A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as Dabouri.Karmon, 1960, p. 167 .

In 1838, it was noted as a Muslim village in the Nazareth district.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 132 It was found "small and unimportant", with the visible ruins of a Christian church.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 210, 229

Victor Guérin visited in the 1875, and noted "Among the houses may be remarked the remains of an ancient edifice, measuring twenty-two paces in length by ten in breadth, and built from west to east. It was once constructed of cut stones and a certain number of courses are still standing. The interior is now occupied by a private house and a stable, above which rises the medafeh—a house set apart for strangers. In all probability this was a Christian Church."Guérin, 1880, p. 140 ff, as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p. 384

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Deburieh as "A small village built of stone, with inhabited caves; contains about 200 Moslems and is surrounded by gardens of figs and olives. It is situated on the slope of the hill. Water is obtained from in the village."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p. 363.

A population list from about 1887 showed that ed Deburieh had about 300 inhabitants; all Muslims.Schumacher, 1888, p. 182

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British Mandate In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Dabburieh had a total population of 602, all Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p. 38 which had increased in the 1931 census to 747; 728 Muslims and 19 Christians, in a total of 170 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 73

In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,290, 1,260 Muslims and 30 Christians,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 8 with 13,373 of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 62 Of this, 723 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 12,581 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 109 while 65 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 159

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Archaeology Minor archaeological surveys, salvage and trial digs conducted in the village, including some in 2004 and 2006, uncovered pottery and other fragmentary remains from the Iron Age to the Ottoman Empire period. The 2000s digs brought to light ceramic from the Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine Empire, Umayyad and Mamluk periods, sparse building remains from the Late Roman or Byzantine period, and a probable terrace wall datable to the Middle Bronze Age and/or the Roman period, as well as rock-cut installations such as winepresses and cupmarks.

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Education In 2008 and 2009 Daburiyya High School received the National Education Award, achieving second and third place. It was the first time that a school in Israel has won the award twice in a row. The principal, Abed Elsalam Masalcha, attributed the positive developments in the school to the introduction of a Transcendental Meditation program which solved student discipline problems.Forim, Jack. Transcendental Meditation. (2012). Hay House, Inc.

In 2009 the Israeli Education Ministry said it would shut down the town's high school of sciences, which had 210 students that year, because it was operating without a permit. The school, located in a building intended for a housing project, specialized in biology, physics, chemistry and computer science and had a 100% matriculation success rate. It was a branch of the I'billin-based Mar Elias School. According to the local parents' association, the school was opened because the local high school had become "chaotic and the police needed to frequently intervene between students." Arab parents battle ministry over science HS. Haaretz. 2009-10-18.

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See also

• Arab localities in Israel

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Bibliography

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External links

• Welcome To Dabburiya
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Finds from a Burial Cave at Daburriya
• Israeli-Arab lifestyle change may create old-age home boom

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