Ceramic
sherds from the
Byzantine,
Crusader/
Ayyubid and
Mamluk Pottery from the early Ottoman era have also been found here. An Ottoman village list of about 1870 indicated 22 houses and a population of 90, though the population count included men, only. In 1882, the
PEF's
Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described
Deir es Sudan as: "A village of moderate size, with a
well to the west, on the slope of a hill, with olive-groves round it." In 1896 the population of
Der es-sudan was estimated to be about 153 persons.
British Mandate era In the
1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the
British Mandate authorities, the village, named
Dair Al-Sudan, had a population of 173, all Muslim, increasing in the
1931 census to 243 Muslims, in 53 houses. In the
1945 statistics the population of
Deir es Sudan was 280 Muslims, with of land under their jurisdiction, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 2,416 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 841 were for cereals, while were built-up (urban) land.
Jordanian era In the wake of the
1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the
1949 Armistice Agreements, Deir as-Sudan came under
Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 486 inhabitants in Deir as-Sudan.
1967-present Since the
Six-Day War in 1967, Deir as-Sudan has been under
Israeli occupation. After the
1995 accords, 57.2% of the village's total area has been defined as
Area A land, 6.5% as
Area B land, while the remaining 36.3% is
Area C. ==References==