Shards from
Iron Age II,
Crusader/
Ayyubid and
Mamluk eras have been found here.
Ottoman era Shards from the early
Ottoman era have been found here. In 1838,
Ausarin was noted as a village in the District of
El-Beitawy, east of Nablus. In 1870
Victor Guérin noted the village, situated on a hill.
British Mandate era In the
1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the
British Mandate authorities,
Ausarin had a population of 87 Muslims, increasing in the
1931 census to 122 Muslim, in 34 houses. In the
1945 statistics, Usarin had a population of 200 Muslim, with 2,185
dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 347 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,098 were used for cereals, while 11 dunams were built-up land.
Jordanian era In the wake of the
1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the
1949 Armistice Agreements, Osarin came under
Jordanian rule. The
Jordanian census of 1961 found 293 inhabitants in Usarin.
1967-present After the
Six-Day War in 1967, Osarin has been under
Israeli occupation. During the early months of the
First Intifada, on 23 March 1898, Adli Maher Sa'id, aged 14, was shot dead. An Israeli citizen, Ovadia Saluni from
Masua, was detained as a suspect. After the
1995 accords, 83% of the village land is defined as
Area B land, while the remaining 17% is
Area C. ==References==