Salhab
| Salhab | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | سلحب |
| • Also spelled | Khirbet Salhab (official) |
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| Coordinates: 32°21′15″N 35°22′21″E / 32.35417°N 35.37250°ECoordinates: 32°21′15″N 35°22′21″E / 32.35417°N 35.37250°E | |
| Palestine grid | 185/195 |
| Governorate | Tubas |
| Founded | 1880 (modern settlement) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Local Development Committee (from 1999) |
| • Head of Municipality | Fawze Sawafta |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 5,000 dunams (5.0 km2 or 1.9 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 45 |
| Name meaning | "The Ruin of the Tall Man" |
Salhab (Arabic: سلحب, also known as Khirbet Salhab) is a small Palestinian village in the Tubas Governorate in the northeastern West Bank, located four kilometers north of Tubas. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, it had a population of 45 living in five households in 2007. Its current mayor is Fawze Sawafta.
Salhab has been identified with the Biblical town of Bezeq where Saul gathered his army to relieve Jabesh-Gilead, mentioned in the Book of Samuel. Archaeological evidence throughout the village and its vicinity, in the form of walls and foundations of ancient buildings, suggest a previous Roman or Byzantine-era presence in Salhab. Ceramic objects from the Byzantine periods have been found.
In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as "Salhab", a village in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of eight households and two bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives.
In his 1870 visit, French explorer Victor Guérin described Salhab as "A little town, now destroyed, on a hill whose rocky sides are pierced by numerous cisterns. The place which it occupied is now covered with confused materials, the remains of demolished dwellings, and disposed for the most part in circular heaps round silos or subterranean magazines cut in the rock." According to the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ), the modern settlement was re-established on the ancient khirba ("ruin") in 1880 by a family from Nablus. After the death of the family's head, Salhab's lands were sold to immigrants coming from present-day Lebanon and Iraq. Nonetheless, no population for the village was recorded in the 1931 British census of Palestine.
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