Editing Mi'ar (section)

===Ottoman era===
Incorporated into the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1517 with all of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], Mi'ar appeared in the 1596 [[Defter|tax registers]] as being in the Akka Nahiya (Subdistrict of [[Acre, Israel|Acre]]), part of the [[Safad Sanjak]] (District of Safed). It had a population 10 [[Muslim]] households, an estimated 55 persons. The villagers paid fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat and barley, fruit, goats and beehives; a total of 1,235 [[akçe]].<ref>Hütteroth and  Abdulfattah 1977, p. 193, as given in Khalidi, 1992, p. 26</ref><ref>Note that Rhode 1979, p. [https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420031504/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |date=2019-04-20 }} writes that the register that Hütteroth and  Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9.</ref>

In the late 1700, the Italian traveler [[Giovanni Mariti]] noted that  around al-Damun and Mi'ar were two "delightful valleys, ornamented with groves and wild shrubs. The peasants who live in the [[Hamlet (place)|hamlets]] around, enjoy a most pleasant situation."<ref>Mariti, 1792, p. [https://archive.org/stream/travelsthroughc00marigoog#page/n373/mode/1up 343]</ref> 

In 1875, French explorer [[Victor Guérin]] visited Mi'ar, and noted that it contained "several trunks of columns, three broken capitals, and a certain number old cut stones, coming from some ancient building. I observed also many blocks of ancient appearance disposed round threshing-floors. There are also [[cistern]]s, walls, and caves cut in the rock, which belong to times more or less remote."<ref>Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr01unkngoog#page/n447/mode/1up 434], as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/325/mode/1up 325]</ref> He found Mi'ar to be inhabited by 500 Muslims.<ref>Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr01unkngoog#page/n447/mode/1up 434], as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/271/mode/1up 271]</ref>

In 1881, the [[Palestine Exploration Fund|PEF]]'s ''[[PEF Survey of Palestine|Survey of Western Palestine]]'' (SWP) described it as a large village situated on high ground that was rough and uncultivated. The villagers, whose number was estimated to be 1,500 (in 1859), cultivated some 30 [[faddan]]s.<ref name=SWP271>Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/271/mode/1up 271]. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 26.</ref> A population list from about 1887 showed that ''Mi'ar'' had about 480  inhabitants; all Muslims.<ref>Schumacher, 1888, p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme19pale#page/n201/mode/1up 176]</ref> An elementary school was founded by the Ottomans in 1888, however, it closed its doors in the final years of the Empire.<ref name=Khalidi26/>