Talluza
| Talluza | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | طلوزه |
| • Also spelled | Talozh (official) Telluzeh (unofficial) |
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| Coordinates: 32°16′16″N 35°17′38″E / 32.27111°N 35.29389°ECoordinates: 32°16′16″N 35°17′38″E / 32.27111°N 35.29389°E | |
| Palestine grid | 177/186 |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| • Head of Municipality | Ahmad m . Salahat |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 2,375 |
| Name meaning | "Almond Mountain" |
Talluza (Arabic: طلوزه) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, it had a population of 2,375 in 2007.
Talluza has been identified as the Samaritan town of Tira Luzeh where the high priest Baba Rabba erected a synagogue in the 4th century CE. The Talmud mentions the village as "Turluzeh" where the Romans burnt the sacred Hebrew scrolls. According to Albright, the name "Tur-Luzeh" (Tûr Lôzah) was Aramaic for "almond mountain." In 1941 a Greek inscription was found bearing the name of "Yosef Ben Ya'akov Zechariah," a Samaritan from the 4th–5th centuries. Later, in 1985 a rock-hewn Samaritan burial cave containing three coffins for members of the Samaritan Ptolemayos family was excavated. A handful of glass beads and an oil lamp were also found in the excavation. Inside the village is the maqam ("holy tomb") of Nabi Harun ("the Prophet Aaron") according to local tradition. A columbarium and Byzantine ceramics have been found in the village.
In 1322 the village was mentioned by Sir John Maundeville under the name of Deluze.
In 1596 it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as "Talluza", a village in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 62 households, all Muslim. Taxes were paid on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats, beehives and a press for olives or grapes.
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