Selaa

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Selaa
سلعا
Village
Selaa is located in Lebanon
Selaa
Selaa
Coordinates: 33°15′15″N 35°22′48″E / 33.25417°N 35.38000°E / 33.25417; 35.38000
Grid position185/295 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictTyre
Elevation
1,440 ft (440 m)
Time zoneGMT +3

Selaa, Silảh, (Arabic: سلعا) is a village in the Tyre District in Southern Lebanon.

Name

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According to E. H. Palmer, Silảh comes from "the crevasse".[1]

History

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In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 250 Metuali inhabitants.[2] 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.'[3]

Close to Silah, Guérin also found the ruins of a small village, completely destroyed, known as Kh. Fenian.[4]

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."[5] They further noted that it had a perennial spring, built up with masonry,[6] and that it was "an ancient site; there is a terraced hill; there are six sarcophagi and two olive-presses near the village."[4]

References

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  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 33
  2. ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 263
  3. ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 263; as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 139
  4. ^ a b Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 139
  5. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 94
  6. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 105

Bibliography

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  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). 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. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
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