Nazla

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.

Nazla
نزلة

Nazle
Town
Al-Nazlah
Nazla
نزلة
Location in Gaza Strip
Coordinates: 31°31′58″N 34°28′56″E
Country Palestine
GovernorateNorth Governorate
CityJabalia
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3

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][9]

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.[10]

British mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nazla had a population of 694, all Muslim,[11] increasing in the 1931 census to 944, still all Muslims, in 226 houses.[12]

In the 1945 statistics Nazla had a population of 1,330, all Muslims,[13] with 4,510 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[14][15] Of this, 36 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 547 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,141 used for cereals,[16] while 24 dunams were built-up land.[17]

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.[18][19] In the 1970s and 1980s, Israel developed building projects in Nazla, offering Palestinian refugee families subsidized rates to resettle there.[20]

References
  1. meaning Settlement, or hamlet, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 361
  2. Roy, 1995, p. 16
  3. 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. Hartmann, 1883, p. 129, noted 113 houses
  10. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 236
  11. Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 8
  12. Mills, 1932, p. 5
  13. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 32
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46
  15. Nazla Profile. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center. 2007-02-09.
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 88
  17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 138
  18. Shahwan, 2003, p. 41
  19. Dishon, 1973, p. 457
  20. United Nations. Yearbook of the United Nations 1987. (1992). p. 340.

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