Dayr Aban (also spelled Deir Aban; Arabic: دير آبان) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict, located on the lower slope of a high...

much certainty, with some identifying it with Beit Iksa, and others with Dayr Aban. The placename appears in the Books of Samuel in two narratives: In the...

commenced operations which were later coined "El Ha-Har", moving to capture Dayr Aban (to the south of Mahseya) where there was located the 'Joint' military...

Tramontana, Felicita (2014). "III. Conversion to Islam in the villages of Dayr Abān and Ṣūbā". Passages of Faith: Conversion in Palestinian villages (17th...

Declaration. In the 1920s, it was noted that the inhabitants of Beit Kahil, Dayr Aban and Taffuh were originally Christian. The Nakba left the multi-denominational...

Byzantine period have been found in the area. The small Arab towns of Dayr Aban and Dayr Rafat used rocks for building from Tell er-Rumeileh (Tel Beit Shemesh)...

Tramontana, Felicita (2014). "III. Conversion to Islam in the villages of Dayr Abān and Ṣūbā". Passages of Faith: Conversion in Palestinian villages (17th...

Yemen and Aden, on the land of depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Dayr Aban. Although it too was later abandoned, it was re-settled by Cochin Jews...

fully opened to the public on May 24, 1891, and a further section to Dayr Aban was opened on December 4 of the same year. In Jaffa and Jerusalem, the...

Tramontana, Felicita (2014). "III. Conversion to Islam in the villages of Dayr Abān and Ṣūbā". Passages of Faith: Conversion in Palestinian villages (17th...