Pottery
sherds from the early and late
Roman and
Byzantine eras have been found here. In addition to ceramics, inscriptions dating to the Byzantine era have been found here. This place was mentioned in the
Samaritan Chronicle, and was inhabited by the
Samaritans in the 7th century CE. Benyamim Tsedaka references the Samaritan 'Aanaan family, cited in an 8th-century source, as former inhabitants of Kafr Qalil before their destruction or conversion. Pottery from the
Umayyad era has also been found here. In 1838,
Kefr Kullin was noted as a village on the side of
Mount Gerizim, located in the District of ''Jurat 'Amra'', south of Nablus. In 1870,
Victor Guérin described it as being a village of two hundred inhabitants, separated by a valley in two districts, one northern and the other southern. A few gardens adjoined it. In 1882, the
PEF's
Survey of Western Palestine described
Kefr Kullin as "A small village at the foot of Gerizim, with a spring in it; it stands higher than the main road." increasing at the time of the
1931 census to 332, still all Muslim, in 79 houses. In the
1945 statistics, Kafr Qallil (including
Khirbat Sarin) had a population of 470, all Muslims, with 4,732
dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 83 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,397 were used for cereals, while 39 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
Jordanian era In the wake of the
1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the
1949 Armistice Agreements, Kafr Qallil came under
Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 749 inhabitants here.
1967, aftermath Since the
Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Qallil has been under
Israeli occupation. After the
1995 Accords, 27% of the village land was classified as
Area A, the remaining 73% as
Area C. Israel has confiscated hundreds of dunams of land from the village. Some has been used for Israeli military checkpoints, and 15 dunams went to the
Israeli settlement of
Har Brakha. == Demography ==