| Nazla نزلة | |||||||||||
| Settlement Type: | Town | ||||||||||
| Official Name: | Al-Nazlah | ||||||||||
| Other Name: | Nazle | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Palestine Gaza | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Gaza Strip | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | North Gaza Governorate | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | City | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Jabalia | ||||||||||
| Unit Pref: | Metric | ||||||||||
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities | ||||||||||
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions | ||||||||||
| Timezone: | EET | ||||||||||
| Utc Offset: | +2 | ||||||||||
| Timezone Dst: | +3 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 31.5328°N 34.4822°W | ||||||||||
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Nazla (ar|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.
Nazla has been identified as the site of the Byzantine-era town of Asalea (Ασαλέα in Greek).[3] Asalea belonged to the city of Gaza during that period.[4] 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]
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]
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]
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]
. Joseph Bingham. 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. 7. William Straker.
. Victor Guérin. Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 1: Judee, pt. 2. 1869. L'Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. French.
. Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Sami Hadawi. 1970. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
. Edward Henry Palmer. 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.
. S.. Roy. Sara Roy. 1995. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development. Institute for Palestine Studies. 0887282601.
