Shilta
Shiltah
شلتة | ||
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Village | ||
 Members of the Yiftach Brigade in Shiltah during Operation Danny. 1948 | ||
| Etymology: Shilta, from personal name[1] | ||
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Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine | | |
| Subdistrict | Ramle | |
| Date of depopulation | July 15–16, 1948[4] | |
| Population (1945) | ||
| • Total | 100[2][3] | |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces | |
| Current Localities | Shilat[5] Kfar Ruth[5] | |
Shilta was a
Etymology
The name is of Aramaic origins.[7] During the Crusader era the place was called Kefrscilta or Capharscylta.[5][8]
History
Persian to Mamluk periods
Ottoman period
The village likely saw settlement during the 19th century, given its absence from the Early Ottoman defter.[6]
In 1870,
An Ottoman village list from about the same year showed that Schi’ra had 13 houses and a population of 41, though the population count included men, only. It was noted that it was located east of Jimzu.[10][11]
British Mandate
According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Shilta had a population of 22 inhabitants, in 7 houses.[12]
The village had a mosque at the north end of the village, and there was a shrine of Shayk Ahmad al Shiltawi near it.[5]
In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 100 Muslims,[2] with a total of 5,380 dunums of land.[3] Of this, 27 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,159 dunums were used for cereals,[13] while 6 dunams were classified as built-up public areas.[14]
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Shilta 1944 1:20,000 from 1919 survey -
Shilta 1945 1:250,000
1948 war; Israel
Shilta was depopulated after a military assault July 15–16, 1948.[4]
Israel established Shilat and Kfar Ruth on village land in 1977.[5]
In 1992, the village site was described: "The site is overgrown with mountain flora, including long grasses and pomegranate, almond, and carob trees. Some of the cactus hedges survive, and several wells also are visible. Israeli have built greenhouses for growing flowers, [] Israeli settlement houses have been built on village land."[5]
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 245
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68
- ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #235. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ a b c d e f Khalidi, 1992, p. 415
- ^ ISBN 965-440-007-3.
- ^ Marom, Roy; Zadok, Ran (2023). "Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan's Endowment Deed (1552)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 139 (2).
- ^ a b c Finkelstein, et al., 1997, p. 135
- ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 51
- ^ Socin, 1879, p. 161
- ^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 138 also noted 13 houses
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 23
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 117
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 167
Bibliography
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- ISBN 965-440-007-3.
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Guérin, V. (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 2: Samarie, 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.
- ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- 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.
- Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163.
External links
- Welcome To Shilta
- Shilta, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
