Siris ( ar, سيريس) is a
Palestinian
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
town in the
Jenin Governorate
The Jenin Governorate ( ar, محافظة جنين, Muḥāfaẓat Ǧanīn) is one of 16 Governorates of Palestine. It covers the northern extremity of the West Bank, including the area around the city of Jenin.
During the first six months of th ...
in the western area of the
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
, located 32 kilometers south of
Jenin
Jenin (; ar, ') is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank. It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine and is a major center for the surrounding towns. In 2007, Jenin had a population of a ...
. 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 ...
, the town had a population of 5400 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. Siris has an area of about 12,495 dunums, including 2,500 dunums of state land, about 7,500 dunums planted with olive trees, about 1,500 dunums of land, and the rest used for construction.
Location
Siris is bordered to the north by the villages of
Al-Judeida
Al-Judeida ( ar, الجديدة) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the western area of the West Bank, located south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 4,738 in the ...
and
Sir
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only a ...
. To the west is the town of
Meithalun
Meithalun ( ar, ميثلون, transliteration: ''Meithalûn''; also spelled ''Maythalun'', ''Maithaloun'' or ''Meithalon'') is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 26 kilometers south of Jenin. According to ...
, to the south is the village of
Yassid
Yasid ( ar, ياصيد) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 15 kilometers northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,291 inhabit ...
.
History

Ceramic remains have been found from the
Roman
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* Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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era,
[Zertal, 2004, pp]
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/ref> as well as for the Byzantine
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era[ and the early Muslim era.][
Siris was one of the stations of ancient ]Umayyad
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE; , ; ar, ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, al-Khilāfah al-ʾUmawīyah) was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was ruled by the ...
convoys.
In 1165 a Crusader text mention an estate name ''Casalien Ciris'', which belonged to a Vitzgraf Ulrich.[
It is said that the Muslim leader Salah al-Din Ayyubi has passed on and taken Siris as headquarters of his forces.]
Ottoman era
Siris, like all of Palestine
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* State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia
* Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia
* Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East J ...
, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire
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in 1517. In the 1596 tax registers, Siris was part of the ''nahiya
A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...
'' ("subdistrict") of Jabal ''Sami'', part of the larger Sanjak of Nablus
The Nablus Sanjak ( ar, سنجق نابلس; tr, Nablus Sancağı) was an administrative area that existed throughout Ottoman rule in the Levant (1517–1917). It was administratively part of the Damascus Eyalet until 1864 when it became part o ...
. It had a population of 12 households and 3 bachelors, all Muslims. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 2,030 akçe.
In the 19th century the Egyptian leader Ibrahim Pasha passed with his forces through Siris during his conquests in the Levant and lived there after he failed to storm the neighboring village of Sanur.
In 1838, Edward Robinson noted the village when he travelled in the region, as bordering the extremely fertile Marj Sanur
Marj Sanur ( ar, مرج صانور, translation: "Sanur Valley"; also called Marj al-Ghuruq, translation: "Drowning Valley" is a closed basin within the northern mountains of the West Bank, located entirely in the southern Jenin Governorate, in b ...
. He listed it as part of the District of ''Haritheh'', north of Nablus.
In 1870 Victor Guérin
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noted the village, surrounded by groves of olives.
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* Peak expiratory flow
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* Perpetual Education Fund
* Perpetual Emigratio ...
's ''Survey of Western Palestine
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'' (SWP) described Siris as a small village in the valley, with olives.
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 divis ...
, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Siris had 494 Muslims inhabitants,[Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p]
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/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 608 Muslims, in a total of 123 houses.[Mills, 1932, p]
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In the 1945 statistics, the population of Siris was 830, all Muslims,[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p]
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/ref> with 12,593 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. 1,881 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,884 dunams for cereals, while 19 dunams were built-up (urban) land and 7,809 dunams were classified as "non-cultivable".
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,[Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Ri ...](_blank)
ian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,207 inhabitants here.[Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p]
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Post-1967
After the Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...
in 1967, Siris 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 ...
.
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External links
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*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11:
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