Ein ad-Duyuk al-Foqa ( ar, عين الديوك الفوقا), also called Duyuk, is a Palestinian village in the

Jericho Governorate The Jericho Governorate ( ar, محافظة أريحا, Muḥāfaẓat Arīḥā) is one of 16 Governorates of Palestine. Its capital is Jericho. The governorate is located along the eastern areas of the West Bank, along the northern Dead Sea a ...

in the eastern West Bank situated in the Jordan Valley, located northwest of

Jericho Jericho ( ; ar, أريحا ; he, יְרִיחוֹ ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. It is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Gove ...

. According to the

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; ar, الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني) is the official statistical institution of the State of Palestine. Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures a ...

, Ein ad-Duyuk al-Foqa had a population of over 814 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. In 1997,

refugee A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

s constituted 27.9% of the population. The primary health care for the village is through contributions from the Ministry of Health and Medical Relief Committee.

History

Antiquity

Under the

Seleucid Empire The Seleucid Empire (; grc, Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, ''Basileía tōn Seleukidōn'') was a Greek state in West Asia that existed during the Hellenistic period from 312 BC to 63 BC. The Seleucid Empire was founded by the ...

, the peak of nearby

Jebel Quruntul Mount of Temptation, in Palestinian Arabic ( ar, جبل لقرنطل), is a mountain over the town of Jericho in the Judean Desert, in the West Bank. Ancient Christian tradition identifies it as the location of the temptation of Jesus described ...

was fortified and garrisoned to control

and the roads leading through the mountains from it to Jerusalem. The original Hebrew name is not preserved except in the Greek transcriptions of

1 Maccabees The First Book of Maccabees, also known as First Maccabees (written in shorthand as 1 Maccabees or 1 Macc.), is a book written in Hebrew by an anonymousRappaport, U., ''47. 1 Maccabees'' in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J. (2001)The Oxford Bible Comme ...

and Josephus, which call it ''Dok'' and ''Dagon''. It was the scene of

Simon Maccabeus Simon Thassi ( he, ''Šīməʿōn haTassī''; died 135) was the second son of Mattathias and thus a member of the Hasmonean family. Names The name "Thassi" has a connotation of "the Wise", a title which can also mean "the Director", "the G ...

's assassination by his son-in-law Ptolemy. The later lavra monastery beside the Grotto of the

Temptation Temptation is a desire to engage in short-term urges for enjoyment that threatens long-term goals.Webb, J.R. (Sep 2014). Incorporating Spirituality into Psychology of temptation: Conceptualization, measurement, and clinical implications. Sp ...

also had a name transcribed into Greek as ''Douka''.

Ottoman era

It was noted as mazra’a (=cultivated land) near Riha in the 945 AH/1538-1539 CE Ottoman tax records, and as a mazra’a near An-Nuway'imah in the 1005 AH/1596-1597 CE tax records. In 1838 Edward Robinson noted the "large and beautiful fountain or rather fountains" at ''Duk''. In 1883, the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' noted at ''Ain ed Duk'': "Near this spring a tomb was examined in the side of the hill. It is a chamber with 21 ''kokim'' in two tiers. There are other caves near it, and broken sarcophagi. The one excavated measures 16 feet by 17 feet. The lower tier contains three ''kokim'' at the back, and 4 each side. The upper tier has only three on the left hand side. The kokim are 2 feet wide, 6 feet 8 inches long, and 3 feet 4 inches high. Near the same place were found two shafts 3 feet long and 2 feet 8 inches diameter."

British Mandate era

In the

1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divisi ...

conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''ad-Duyuk'', together with Al-Auja and Nweimeh had a population of 332; 322 Muslims and 10 Christians,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jericho, p
19
/ref> where the Christians were 7 Orthodox, and 3 Syrian Catholic.Barron, 1923, Table XIV, p
45
/ref> In the 1931 census Duyuk had a population of 291 Muslims, in 66 houses.Mills, 1932, p
45
/ref> In the 1945 statistics, Duyuk's population was 730 MuslimsGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
24
/ref> and it had jurisdiction over 21,332

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...

s of land. Of this, 399 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 2,050 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 1,171 for cereals, while a total of 17,712 dunams were non-cultivable areas.

Jordanian era

In the wake of the

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...

, and after the

1949 Armistice Agreements The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordanian rule The Jordanian annexation of the West Bank formally occurred on 24 April 1950, after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, during which Transjordan occupied territory that had previously been part of Mandatory PalestineRaphael Israeli, Jerusalem divi ...

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Duyuk has been under

Israeli occupation Israeli-occupied territories are the lands that were captured and occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967. While the term is currently applied to the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights, it has also been used to refer to a ...

. In 1994, Ein ad-Duyuk al-Foqa and An Nuwei'ma were constituted as a single local council. After the 1995 accords, 52.3% of the land of Ein ad-Duyuk al-Foqa is classified as Area A, the remaining 47.7% is Area C.An Nuwei'ma & 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa Town Profile
ARIJ, p. 17

References

Bibliography

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External links

An Nuwei'ma and 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa Town (Fact Sheet)
Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, ARIJ
An Nuwei'ma & 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa Town Profile
ARIJ
An Nuwei'ma & 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa aerial photo
ARIJ
Locality Development Priorities and Needs in An Nuwei'ma and 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa
ARIJ *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 18
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