Salim, Nablus

Salim (Arabic: سالم‎) 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 approximately 5,100 inhabitants in 2006.[2]

Salim
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicسالم
 • LatinSalem (official)
Salim, from Mount Ebal
Salim
Location of Salim within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°13′N 35°20′E
Palestine grid181/179
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateNablus
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Area
 • Total10,283 dunams (10.3 km2 or 4.0 sq mi)
Population
 (2006)
 • Total5,100
 • Density500/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Name meaningSalem[1]

Location

Salim is located 6.63 kilometers (4.12 mi) 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.[3]

History
See also: Shechem

The village is ancient with foundations of houses.[4] In 1882, traces of ruins, cisterns, a ruined tank, and a cemetery of rock-cut tombs were noted.[5]

Salim dates back to the Middle Bronze Age. It was near the ancient Canaanite and later Israelite town of Shechem.[6]

The village has been populated in Early Bronze I, Iron Age II, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad and Crusader/Ayyubid eras.[7]

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.[8]

In 1838, Robinson noted Salim as a village in the same area as the villages Azmut and Deir al-Hatab,[9] all were part of the El-Beitawy district, east of Nablus.[10]

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.[11]

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.[12]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Salem had a population of 423, all Muslims,[13] while in the 1931 census, Salim, including El Hamra, had 100 occupied houses and a population of 490, again all Muslim.[14]

In the 1945 statistics Salim had a population of 660, all Muslims,[15] with 10,293 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[16] Of this, 229 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 5,158 used for cereals,[17] while 24 dunams were built-up land.[18]

Jordanian era

During the 1948 war the area was held by units from the Iraqi Army.[19] In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Salim came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 888 inhabitants.[20]

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.[21]

See also

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 206
  2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
  3. Salim Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  4. Dauphin, 1998, p. 847
  5. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 244
  6. Sychem also Sikima and Salim - (Tell Balatah) Studium Biblicum Franciscanum - Jerusalem. 19 December 2000.
  7. Finkelstein et al., 1997, p. 817
  8. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 130.
  9. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 95, 102
  10. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 128
  11. Guérin, 1874, p. 456 ff
  12. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 230
  13. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
  14. Mills, 1932, p. 64
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
  17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 107
  18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 157
  19. 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
  20. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  21. Salim Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 15

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