Sallama ( ar, سلامة; he, סלאמה) is a

Bedouin The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (; , singular ) are nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert and A ...

village in northern

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Located in the

Galilee Galilee (; he, הַגָּלִיל, hagGālīl; ar, الجليل, al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Galilee traditionally refers to the mountainous part, divided into Upper Galilee (, ; , ) and Lower Galil ...

near the Tzalmon Stream, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Misgav Regional Council The Misgav Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית משגב, ''Mo'atza Azorit Misgav'' ISO 259-3 ''Moˁaça ʔazorit Miśgabb'') is a regional council in the Galilee region in northern Israel. The regional council is home to 27,421 people ...

. In its population was . The village was recognized by the state in 1976.

History

Sallama has been identified as the site of the village of

Selamin Selamin ()( gr, Σελάμην), also known as Tzalmon, Selame, Salamis / Salamin, Zalmon, and ''Khurbet es Salâmeh'' (the Ruin of Salameh), was a Jewish village in Lower Galilee during the Second Temple period, formerly fortified by Josephus, ...

(Salmon or Tselamon) in the Roman Province of

. At some point between 1688 and 1692, the Zayadina family, who not long before moved to the nearby village of

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, had assaulted and destroyed Sallama, whose

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sheikh controlled the Shaghur subdistrict to which both villages belonged.Firro 1997, pp. 45–46. The Druze subsequently fled Sallama and at least eight other villages in the subdistrict, including

Kammaneh Kammaneh ( ar, الكمانه, he, כמאנה) is a Bedouin village in northern Israel. It is the result of the merger between Sawae'd (Kammaneh East) and Kamun (Kammaneh West). Located near Mount Kamun (Jabal Kamun) and to the north of Sakhni ...

and

Dallata Dallata ( ar, دلاّتة) was a Palestinian Arab village, located on a hilltop north of Safad. Constructed upon an ancient site, it was known to the Crusaders as ''Deleha''. Dallata was included in the late 16th century Ottoman census and Brit ...

. At least some of these Druze migrated to the

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to join their co-religionists. The Zayadina meanwhile began their influence in the

and gained the tax farm of Shaghur. In 1875, on the top of the site Guérin found the remains of a rectangular enclosure, 80

paces A pace is a unit of length consisting either of one normal walking step (approximately ), or of a double step, returning to the same foot (approximately ). The normal pace length decreases with age and some health conditions. The word "pace" is al ...

by 50. Within the enclosure and along the walls have been built twenty crude vaulted chambers, which appeared to him modern. Besides the

cistern A cistern (Middle English ', from Latin ', from ', "box", from Greek ', "basket") is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by t ...

s and caves mentioned by Lieutenant Kitchener, Guerin observed two presses cut in the rock. In 1881, the PEF's ''

Survey of Western Palestine The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after the ...

'' noted "This was a Druse village destroyed by the Zeidaneh, the family of Dhaher el 'Amr." They further noted "Heaps of stones, cisterns, and caves."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p
405
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External links

*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6
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