sentences: "The village is mentioned again in Conder's and Kitchener's "Survey of Western Palestine" (SWP), citing data from 1859, and in 1875 by Victor Guérin.In 1872, the Ottoman authorities sold Shayk Abreik (together with a total of 23 villages and some seventy square miles of land) for £20,000 to the Sursuk family of Lebanon.