Beit Sahour
In 1596, "Beit Sahour al-Wadi" appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the "nahiyah" of Quds of the "Liwa" of Quds. Beit Sahour al-Wadi had a population of 40 Muslim households. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, vines or fruit trees, and goats or beehives; a total of 4,500 akçe. All of the revenue went to waqfs; half of which was to the madrasah Muzhiriyya in Jerusalem.