"[1] In 1243, during the Crusader era, Deir Aames (called Derreme, or Dairrhamos) belonged to Venice.

[2] In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted: "'At Deir Amis there is a large basin of great stones, and a portion of wall which seems of Crusading times.

"[3] In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by Metuali families.

[4] He further noted: "numerous ruined houses, a fragment of a column in the interior of a small mosque, cut stones scattered over the ground, cisterns cut in the rock, a tank partly built and partly rock-cut.

"[5] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on a ridge, with olives and arable land around, containing about 100 Metawileh; water from cisterns.