History
There is evidence of Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman occupation. In the Crusader period it was known as Casale Santa Maria. In 1225, Yaqut al-Hamawi noted Aboud was a "small town in Filastin Province, near Jerusalem. The name is Hebrew, and become Arabicized." Arab historian al-Maqrizi mentioned it in the 14th century. Later it appeared in Ottoman dafters as belonging to the nahiya ("sub-district") of Ramla, part of the Sanjak of Gaza. In 1596 it had a population of 19 Christian households and 16 Muslim households, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, and other produce. It was later a part of the Bani Zeid administrative region, still under the Ottomans.
During the 1870s, the village was described as "a large and flourishing Christian village, of stone, the houses nearly all marked with the Cross in red paint," with a population of 400 Orthodox Christians and 100 Muslims. At the time of the 1931 census, Aboud had 215 occupied houses and a population of 470 Christians and 440 Muslims.
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