Dayr Tarif
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| Arabic | دير طريف |
| Name meaning | The monastery of Tureif ("the end") |
| Also spelled | Deir Tarif |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Coordinates | 31°59′26″N 34°56′23″E / 31.99056°N 34.93972°ECoordinates: 31°59′26″N 34°56′23″E / 31.99056°N 34.93972°E |
| Palestine grid | 144/155 |
| Population | 1750 (1948) |
| Date of depopulation | July 10, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Beit Arif |
Dayr Tarif was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948.
The Romans referred to Dayr Tarif as Bethariph. According to SWP; "South-west of the village are traces of ruins, cisterns, and 'rock-sunk' tombs, evidently Christian again, as connected with a monastery." Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.
Dayr Tarif, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located in the nahiya (subdistrict) of al-Ramla under the Liwa of Gaza, with a population of 49 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, sesame, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 9,000 akçe.
In 1870, Victor Guérin estimated that the village had 400 inhabitants. He further noted ancient columns by the mosque. An Ottoman village list from about the same year found that the village had a population of 374, in a total of 93 houses, though the population count included men, only.
In 1882 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village as "A very small hamlet at the edge of the plain. This would seem to be the place called Betariph in the 'Onomasticon,' near Diospolis (Lod)."
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