Salama, Jaffa
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The mosque in Salamah, now in Kfar Shalem
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 Salamah
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| Arabic | سلمة |
| Also spelled | Selmeh |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Coordinates | 32°02′56.94″N 34°48′18.03″E / 32.0491500°N 34.8050083°ECoordinates: 32°02′56.94″N 34°48′18.03″E / 32.0491500°N 34.8050083°E |
| Palestine grid | 131/161 |
| Population | 3,691 (1931) |
| Area | 6,782 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 25 April 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Tel Aviv |
Salamah (Arabic: سلمة) was a Palestinian Arab village, located five kilometers east of Jaffa, that was depopulated in the lead up the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The town was named for Salamah Abu Hashim, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His tomb, two village schools, and ten houses from among the over 800 houses that had made up the village, are all that remain of the structures of the former village today. 'Salameh street', now on the border of Tel Aviv and Jaffa is named after the historic village.
In 1596, under Ottoman rule, Salamah was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa of Gaza), with a population of 94. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives.
An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Salama had 73 houses and a population of 216, though the population count included men only.
In the 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as being built of adobe brick, with a few gardens and wells.
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Salameh had a population of 1,187, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 3,691 inhabitants, still all Muslims, in 800 houses.
An elementary school for boys was opened in 1920, and by 1941 it had 504 boys enrolled. In 1936 an elementary school for girls was opened, which had 121 girls enrolled by 1941.
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