Silat al-Harithiya
| Silat al-Harithiya | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | سيلة الحارثية |
| • Also spelled | Seilet el-Harthiya (unofficial) |
View of Silat al-Harithiya from the air
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 Silat al-Harithiya
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| Coordinates: 32°30′29″N 35°13′39″E / 32.50806°N 35.22750°ECoordinates: 32°30′29″N 35°13′39″E / 32.50806°N 35.22750°E | |
| Palestine grid | 171/212 |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Head of Municipality | Adnan Tahayana |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 9,422 |
| Name meaning | Sily, from personal name |
Silat al-Harithiya (Arabic: سيلة الحارثية) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate, located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics census, the town had a population of 9,422 in 2007.
In 1799, in the Ottoman era, men from Silat al-Harithiya fought Napoleon's invading forces in the Jezreel Valley plain. In 1838 Edward Robinson noted it among many other villages on the plain; Lajjun, Umm al-Fahm, Ti'inik, Kafr Dan, Al-Yamun and el Barid.
In 1870 Victor Guérin noted that Sileh was a large village of 1,000 inhabitants; it was surrounded by gardens planted with fig trees, pomegranates and some vines. In the valley that separated the two areas of which it was composed, there was a oualy dedicated to Sheikh Hasan, with three palm trees in front.
In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as "a good-sized village, well built of stone, with a spring and cisterns. There are rock-cut wine-presses on the west, and olives and figs round".
Palestine, including Silat al-Harithiya, was captured by British forces during World War I and the country subsequently came under a British Mandate. In the 1922 census of Palestine, Selet al-Hartiyeh had a population of 1,041, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 1,259 inhabitants, still all Muslims, living in 295 houses.
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