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13-631: An early defter entry noted that Kafr Qara had been incorporated into the "Diwan of the Circassian sultanate " after it had been seized by ‘the Shaykhs of the mountain of Nablus ’. Kafr Qara was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with the rest of Palestine , and in the defter no. 610, which was written soon after 1540, the revenue of Kafr Qara was designated to an endowment in Jerusalem ;

26-503: A book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus as paper in Ancient Greece, borrowed into Arabic as دفتر : daftar , meaning a register or a notebook. The information collected could vary, but tahrir defterleri typically included details of villages, dwellings, household heads (adult males and widows), ethnicity/religion (because these could affect tax liabilities/exemptions), and land use. The defter-i hakâni

39-620: A group of local parents founded a bilingual, multicultural elementary school in Kafr Qara, named Hand in Hand – Bridge over the Wadi , or "Bridge over the Wadi". Kafr Qara high school, established in 1970 as a vocational school, is now a comprehensive high school for 10th–12th graders from Kafr Qara and environs. The school has participated in multicultural projects such as Jitli , and offers a joint leadership program for Arab and Jewish teenagers. Kafr Qara holds

52-450: A list of the top officials in charge of the finances of the Ottoman Empire , called Defterdar ( Turkish for bookkeepers ; from the Persian دفتردار daftardâr , دفتر daftar + دار dâr ) between the 14th and 19th centuries and Maliye Naziri ( Minister of Finance ) between 19th and 20th centuries. They were originally in charge of the defters (tax registers) in

65-505: A more in-depth understanding of land ownership among Ottomans. This is particularly helpful when attempting to study the daily affairs of Ottoman citizens. Some Ottoman officials responsible for these tax registries were known as defterdars . Records of this kind are known as daftars in Northern India as well, for instance the Peshwa 's daftar of Pune . Defterdar This is

78-568: Is part of the Triangle . It is located in the Wadi Ara region, northwest of the Green Line . Most of the inhabitants are Muslim . It is governed by a local council . Kafr Qara now has about 7000 dunams of land left, after land was expropriated by the local authorities and Israeli government for public and military use. WAC, an independent labor association , is located in the village. In September 2003,

91-670: The 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Qara had a population 776; 767 Muslims and 9 Christians, where the Christians were 7 Roman Catholics and 2 Maronites. The population had increased by the 1931 census to 1,109; 4 Christians and 1,105 Muslims, in 198 houses. In the 1945 statistics , Kafr Qara had a population of 1,510 Muslims, who owned 14,543 dunams of land. Of this, 227 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 11,516 for cereals, while 25 dunams were built-up (urban) land. Kafr Qara

104-602: The Madrasah Al-Uthmaniyya . The whole of the revenue of Kafr Qara, a total of 3,400 aspers annually, belonged to this endowment. In 1859 the population was 450 people, who cultivated 32 feddans of land. In 1883, the PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Kefr Kara as a "good-sized stone village on high ground, with a well to the east, and caves." A population list from about 1887 showed that Kiryat Kefr Kara had about 705 inhabitants, all Muslim. In

117-645: The Imperial Treasury. In 1840, the merging of the remaining independent treasuries was completed. Ministers of Finance in the classical period were called Defterdar , were members of the Divan-ı Hümayun and held rank higher than agha (military commander of the central organization, situated in Istanbul) and bey (provincial governor), and lower than vizier and kazasker (chief judge). Starting from 1837, Ministers of Finance were called Maliye Nazırı , held

130-557: The Ottoman Empire, hence the name defterdar . The exact date of the formal establishment of the office is unknown. According to some sources, the first defterdar was the Kadı (judge) of Mihaliç, Çelebi bin Mehmed, appointed in 1359 or 1360, during the reign of Murad I . During the reign of Bayezid I (1389–1402), the poet Zahiri is mentioned as the defterdar . In the classical period,

143-470: The finances of the Empire were organized under a single Defterdar , literally the main bookkeeper, in charge of a single imperial treasury ( Hazine-i Amire ). Starting in 1793, smaller treasuries independent of the imperial treasury were organized, each with a separate defterdar in charge. In 1837, a modern ministry was founded under the name of Maliye Nezareti , merging most of the independent treasuries back to

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156-483: The highest record for doctors relative to population size in the country, around 14.8 doctors per 1,000 citizens(2007, with more than 50 medicine student back then), Kafr Qara known as well for recording a high rate of academics and master's degree holders. Defter A defter was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire . The term is derived from Greek diphthera διφθέρα , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning

169-447: Was a land registry, also used for tax purposes. Each town had a defter and typically an officiator or someone in an administrative role to determine whether the information should be recorded. The officiator was usually some kind of learned man who had knowledge of state regulations. The defter was used to record family interactions such as marriage and inheritance. These records are useful for historians because such information allows for

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