Selaa
| Selaa سلع |
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 Selaa
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| Coordinates: 33°15′15″N 35°22′18″E / 33.25417°N 35.37167°E | |
| Grid position | 185/295 PAL |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | South Governorate |
| District | Tyre |
| Elevation | 1,440 ft (440 m) |
| Time zone | GMT +3 |
Selaa, Silảh, (Arabic: سلع) is a village in the Tyre District in Southern Lebanon.
Name[edit]
According to E. H. Palmer, Silảh comes from "the crevasse".[1]
History[edit]
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 Palestine Exploration Fund'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[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 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.
External links[edit]
- Selaa, Localiban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
