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Salbit

Salbit
سلبيت
Selebi, Shaalvim, Shaalbim, Shaalabbin[1][2]
Etymology: from personal name[3]
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Salbit is located in Mandatory Palestine
Salbit
Salbit
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°52′10″N 34°59′11″E / 31.86944°N 34.98639°E / 31.86944; 34.98639
Palestine grid148/141
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulation15–16 July 1948[6]
Area
 • Total
6,111 dunams (6.111 km2 or 2.359 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
510[4][5]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesShaalvim[7]

Salbit (Arabic: سلبيت, also spelled Selbît[8]) was a Palestinian Arab village located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) southeast of al-Ramla.[9] Salbit was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War after a military assault by Israeli forces.[6] The Israeli locality of Shaalvim was established on the former village's lands in 1951.

  1. ^ Taylor, 1993, p. 68
  2. ^ Smith, 1857, p. 972
  3. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 326
  4. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
  5. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68
  6. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xix village No. 239. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  7. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 410
  8. ^ Eric. F. Mason (31 December 2000). "Shaalbim". In David Noel Freedman; Allen C. Myers (eds.). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Amsterdam University Press. p. 1193. ISBN 978-90-5356-503-2.
  9. ^ "Salbit". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2009-04-28.

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