Meiser

History

Antiquity

Remains from the Early Roman era (end of the first century BCE–beginning of the first century CE) have been found here.

Three strata from the Roman-Byzantine periods was excavated in the centre of the village. A bathhouse, dating from the same time, has also been found.

Ceramics and other remains from the Byzantine era have been found here.

An excavation revealed remains dating from the end of the Byzantine period (7th century CE), and above it were remains of a residential house from the Abbasid period (9th–10th centuries CE).

Ottoman era

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found at Sheikh Meisir "foundations near a modern Mukam" (Muslim tomb). In spite of this, Andrew Petersen, who inspected the Maqam in 1994, suggested "that the building may be considerably older than the nineteenth century."

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kherbet Maisir had a population of 49 Muslims.

In the 1945 statistics Meiser was counted with Qaffin and Kh. el Aqaba, together they had a population of 1,570 Muslims, with a land area of 23,755 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 5,863 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 8,371 were used for cereals, while 40 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

File:Meisar 1942.jpg|Meiser 1942 1:20,000 File:Qaffin 1945.jpg|Meiser 1945 1:250,000

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2. Dagot, 2007, [http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=464&mag_id=112 Horbat Mesar]
3. Zertal, 2016, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XytzCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA292 292]-[https://books.google.com/books?id=XytzCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA294 294]
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7. Dauphin, 1998, p. 752
8. Massarwa, 2009, [http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=1126&mag_id=115 Horbat Mesar (North)]
9. Sa‘id, 2008, [http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=986&mag_id=114 Horbat Mesar]
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11. Petersen, 2001, p. 283
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