Nazla

Nazla has been identified as the site of the Byzantine-era town of Asalea (Ασαλέα in Greek).Kaswalder, 2002, p. 287. Asalea belonged to the city of Gaza during that period.Bitton-Ashkelony and Kofsky, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=lA9VwVwoyiAC&pg=PA45 45] A celebrated Christian figure in Byzantine Gaza was Alaphion of Asalea who was known to be pious and was one of the early missionaries who helped spread Christianity in the area.Bingham, 1834, p. [https://archive.org/stream/originesecclesiast07bing#page/137/mode/1up 137] In the 6th century Madaba Map, Asalea is marked by three towers, a gate and a segment of a wall.[http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/mad/discussion/114discuss.html 114. Asalea - (al-Nazlah)]. Franciscan Cyberspot quoting Michael Avi-Yonah, The Madaba Mosaic Map (1954).

In 1863, the French explorer Victor Guérin found the village to have about 150 inhabitants.Guérin, 1869, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongog02gu#page/177/mode/1up 177]

An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Nazle had 114 houses and a population of 414, though the population count included only men.Socin, 1879, p. [https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde01deut#page/158/mode/1up 158]Hartmann, 1883, p. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_BZobAQAAIAAJ#page/n937/mode/1up 129], noted 113 houses

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Nazla as a "small hamlet" and a suburb of Jabalia. To the east of Nazla was a well.Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp03conduoft#page/236/mode/1up 236]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nazla had a population of 694, all Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n10/mode/1up 8] increasing in the 1931 census to 944, still all Muslims, in 226 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 5]

In the 1945 statistics Nazla had a population of 1,330, all Muslims,Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p32.jpg 32] with 4,510 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Gaza/Page-046.jpg 46][http://www.jmcc.org/localiteis.aspx?idd=986&type=locality Nazla Profile]. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center. 2007-02-09. Of this, 36 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 547 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,141 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Gaza/Page-088.jpg 88] while 24 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Gaza/Page-138.jpg 138]

During Egyptian rule following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Nazla was one of six localities to establish a village council to administer its affairs. Israel occupied the Gaza Strip during the 1967 Six-Day War.Shahwan, 2003, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=dut-dBI0w10C&pg=PA41 41]Dishon, 1973, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=s3torytPXdUC&pg=PA457 457] In the 1970s and 1980s, Israel developed building projects in Nazla, offering Palestinian refugee families subsidized rates to resettle there.United Nations. Yearbook of the United Nations 1987. (1992). p. 340.

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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Nazla_1453/index.html Welcome To Nazla]
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 19: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8381 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.19.jpg Wikimedia commons]

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