Nazla

Town in North Gaza Governorate, Palestine

Nazla
نزلة

Nazle

Town

Al-Nazlah

Nazla
نزلة

Location in Gaza Strip

Coordinates: 31°31′58″N 34°28′56″E﻿ / ﻿31.53278°N 34.48222°E﻿ / 31.53278; 34.48222
Country|  Palestine
Governorate| North Gaza Governorate
City| Jabalia
Time zone| UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)| +3

Nazla (Arabic: نزلة; also spelled al-Nazlah, Nazle, Annazla or en-Nuzleh[1]) is a Palestinian town in the Gaza Strip, in the North Gaza Governorate of the State of Palestine. 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.

## History[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

1. ^ meaning Settlement, or hamlet, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 361
2. ^ Roy, 1995, p. 16
3. ^ a b 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.

## Bibliography[edit]

* Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
* Bingham, J. (1834). Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and Other Works, of the Rev. Joseph Bingham ; with a Set of Maps of Ecclesiastical Geography, to which are Now Added, Several Sermons, and Other Matter, Never Before Published. Vol. 7\. William Straker.
* Bitton-Askeloni, Bruria; Kofsky, Arieh (2004). Christian Gaza In Late Antiquity. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-13868-1.
* Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 3\. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
* Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
* Dishon (1973). Middle East Record 1968. Vol. 4\. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0470216115.
* Guérin, V. (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
* Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
* Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem türkischen Staatskalender für Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 6: 102–149.
* Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
* Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
* Roy, S. (1995). The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0887282601.
* Shahwan, Usama Salim (2003). Public Administration in Palestine: Past and Present. University Press of America. ISBN 0761826882.
* Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163.

## External links[edit]

* Welcome To Nazla
* Survey of Western Palestine, Map 19: IAA, Wikimedia commons

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