Salim, Nablus

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image_captionSalim, from Mount Ebal
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coordinates
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grid_position181/179
subdivision_typeState
subdivision_nameState of Palestine
subdivision_type1Governorate
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established_titleFounded
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government_typeVillage council
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area_total_km210.3
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population_footnotes
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| name = Salim | translit_lang1 = Arabic | translit_lang1_type = Arabic | translit_lang1_info = سالم | translit_lang1_type1 = Latin | translit_lang1_info1 = Salem (official) | type = Municipality type D (Village council) | image_skyline = Salem8250.JPG | image_caption = Salim, from Mount Ebal | pushpin_map = Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Salim within Palestine | image_map = | map_caption = | coordinates = | grid_name = Palestine grid | grid_position = 181/179 | subdivision_type = State | subdivision_name = State of Palestine | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = Nablus | established_title = Founded | established_date = | government_footnotes = tags -- | government_type = Village council | leader_title = | leader_name = | unit_pref = dunam | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 10.3 | area_total_dunam = 10283 | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_min_m = | elevation_max_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 6266 | population_as_of = 2017 | population_note = | population_density_km2 = auto | blank_name_sec1 = Name meaning | blank_info_sec1 = Salem | website = | footnotes = Salim () is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, located six kilometers east of Nablus and is a part of the Nablus Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Salim had a population of 6,266 inhabitants in 2017.

Location

Salim is located 6.63 km east of Nablus. It is bordered by Beit Dajan to the east, Deir al Hatab to the north and west, Beit Dajan and Beit Furik to the south.

History

The village is ancient with foundations of houses. The village has been populated in Early Bronze I, Iron Age II, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad and Crusader/Ayyubid eras. In 1882, traces of ruins, cisterns, a ruined tank, and a cemetery of rock-cut tombs were noted.

Salim dates back to the Middle Bronze Age. It was near the ancient Canaanite and later Israelite town of Shechem.

Salem was large and ancient Samaritan village. According to Samaritan tradition, Salim was founded by the biblical figure of Jared son of Mahalalel, and this is where 4th-century High Priest Baba Rabba built his sixth synagogue. Samaritan texts refer to the place as "Shalem Rabbta",

Salim is also mentioned in the Samaritan Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abu l-Fath. The text mentions an event during the Fourth Fitna (811–819) when a rebel named Abu 'Uf, from the Judham tribe, reached Salem and was killed there during battles between Muslim factions.

Ottoman era

In 1517, Salim was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 42 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, and goats or beehives, and for a press for olives or grapes; a total of 10,432 akçe.

In 1838, Robinson noted Salim as a village in the same area as the villages Azmut and Deir al-Hatab, all were part of the El-Beitawy district, east of Nablus.

In May, 1870, Guérin came to the village, after walking through fields of olives, figs and almond trees. He found a village with a maximum of 200 people, in ancient houses. A dozen cisterns in the village were dry, so the women had to fetch water from a stream, called Ain Salim, about 1 kilometre north-northwest of the village.

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Salim as a small village, but evidently ancient, surrounded by olive-trees and with two springs to the north.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Salem had a population of 423, all Muslims, while in the 1931 census, Salim, including El Hamra, had 100 occupied houses and a population of 490, again all Muslim.

In the 1945 statistics Salim had a population of 660, all Muslims, with 10,293 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 229 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 5,158 used for cereals, while 24 dunams were built-up land.

Jordanian era

During the 1948 war the area was held by units from the Iraqi Army. In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Salim came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 888 inhabitants.

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Salim has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords 27% of the village land is defined to be Area B land, while the remaining 73% is in Area C.

References

Bibliography

References

  1. (February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017". [[State of Palestine]].
  2. Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/206/mode/1up 206]
  3. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170807024951/http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Salim_vp_en.pdf Salim Village Profile], ARIJ, p. 4
  4. Dauphin, 1998, p. 847
  5. Finkelstein et al., 1997, p. 817
  6. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/244/mode/1up 244]
  7. [http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/mad/discussion/040discuss.html Sychem also Sikima and Salim - (Tell Balatah)] Studium Biblicum Franciscanum - Jerusalem. 19 December 2000.
  8. Levy-Rubin, Milka. (2002). "The Samaritans". Yad Ben-Zvi Press.
  9. בן צבי, יצחק. (1976). "ספר השומרונים". יד יצחק בן צבי.
  10. and mention that Samaritan High Priests live there.Conder, 1876, p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme07pale#page/196/mode/1up 196]
  11. Levy-Rubin, Milka. (2021). "The Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abu l-Fath al-Samiri al-Danafi: Annotated Translation". Gerlach Press.
  12. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 130.
  13. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n112/mode/1up 95], [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n119/mode/1up 102]
  14. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/128/mode/1up 128]
  15. Guérin, 1874, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptionsam01gu#page/456/mode/1up 456] ff
  16. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/230/mode/1up 230]
  17. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n26/mode/1up 24]
  18. Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 64]
  19. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p19.jpg 19]
  20. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Nablus/Page-061.jpg 61]
  21. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Nablus/Page-107.jpg 107]
  22. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Nablus/Page-157.jpg 157]
  23. [[Benny Morris. Morris, Benny]] (1993) ''Israel's Border Wars, 1949 - 1956. Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War''. Oxford University Press, {{ISBN. 0-19-827850-0. pp.146.147
  24. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p26.pdf 26]
  25. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170807024951/http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Salim_vp_en.pdf Salim Village Profile], ARIJ, p. 15

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