Nazla

Nazla
نزلة
Nazle
Town
Al-Nazlah
Nazla
نزلة

Location in Gaza Strip

Coordinates: 31°31′58″N 34°28′56″E / 31.53278°N 34.48222°E / 31.53278; 34.48222
Country  Palestine
Governorate North Governorate
City Jabalia
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) +3 (UTC)

Nazla (Arabic: نزلة‎‎; also spelled al-Nazlah, Nazle, Annazla or en-Nuzleh[1]) is a Palestinian town in the North Governorate of the Gaza Strip. It was formerly a municipality but was merged with the nearby city of Jabalia.[2] Nazla is located a few kilometers north of Gaza City.

History

Nazla has been identified as the site of the Byzantine-era town of Asalea (Ασαλέα in Greek).[3][4] Asalea belonged to the city of Gaza during that period.[3] 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.[5] In the 6th century Madaba Map, Asalea is marked by three towers, a gate and a segment of a wall.[6]

Ottoman era

In 1863, the French explorer Victor Guérin found the village to have about 150 inhabitants.[7]

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.[8]

In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Nazla as a "small hamlet" and a suburb of Jabalia. To the east of Nazla was a well.[9]

British mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nazla had a population of 694, all Muslim,[10] increasing in the 1931 census to 944, still all Muslims, in 226 houses.[11]

In 1945 Nazla had a population of 1,330, all Muslims,[12] with 4,510 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[13][14] Of this, 36 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 547 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,141 used for cereals,[15] while 24 dunams were built-up land.[16]

1948, and after

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.[17][18] In the 1970s and 1980s, Israel developed building projects in Nazla, offering Palestinian refugee families subsidized rates to resettle there.[19]

References

  1. ↑ meaning Settlement, or hamlet, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 361
  2. ↑ Roy, 1995, p. 16
  3. 1 2 Bitton-Ashkelony and Kofsky, 2004, p. 45
  4. ↑ Kaswalder, 2002, p. 287.
  5. ↑ Bingham, 1834, p. 137
  6. ↑ 114. Asalea - (al-Nazlah). Franciscan Cyberspot quoting Michael Avi-Yonah, The Madaba Mosaic Map (1954).
  7. ↑ Guérin, 1869, p. 177
  8. ↑ Socin, 1879, p. 158
  9. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 236
  10. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 8
  11. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 5
  12. ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 32
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46
  14. ↑ Nazla Profile. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center. 2007-02-09.
  15. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 88
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 138
  17. ↑ Shahwan, 2003, p. 41
  18. ↑ Dishon, 1973, p. 457
  19. ↑ United Nations. Yearbook of the United Nations 1987. (1992). p. 340.

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