Selaa
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Selaa, Silaa, ({{langx|ar|سلعا}}) is a municipality in the Tyre District in Southern Lebanon.
Etymology
According to E. H. Palmer, Silảh comes from "the crevasse".Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/33/mode/1up 33]
History
In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 250 Metuali inhabitants.Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n303/mode/1up 263] He further noted: "Here I found an ancient press, the lid of a sarcophagus with acroteria, and a broken sarcophagus, at one of whose ends is a projection resembling an altar. Near it is a great grave with room for two bodies, with a partition wall left in the rock; and beside this an enormous detached block, hollowed out for two bodies, and resting on a surface purposely planed.'Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n303/mode/1up 263]; as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/139/mode/1up 139]
Close to Silah, Guérin also found the ruins of a small village, completely destroyed, known as Kh. Fenian.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/139/mode/1up 139]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "a village, built of stone and of good materials, containing about 200 [..] Metawileh, on hill, with figs, olives, and arable land. Water from cisterns and a spring near."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/94/mode/1up 94] They further noted that it had a perennial spring, built up with masonry,Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/105/mode/1up 105] and that it was "an ancient site; there is a terraced hill; there are six sarcophagi and two olive-presses near the village."
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.65% of registered voters in Selaa. 98.56% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/سلعا/المذاهب/
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|authorlink1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|authorlink2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=1}}
- {{cite book|last=Guérin|first=V.|authorlink=Victor Guérin|title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog|volume=3: Galilee, pt. 2|year=1880|publisher= L'Imprimerie Nationale|location=Paris|language=French}}
- {{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|authorlink=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}
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External links
- [http://www.localiban.org/article4634.html Selaa], Localiban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8365 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.02.jpg Wikimedia commons]
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