Salama, Jaffa

For other uses, see Salama.
Salamah
سلمة
Selmeh
The mosque in Salamah, now in Kfar Shalem
The mosque in Salamah, now in Kfar Shalem
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Salama, Jaffa (click the buttons)
Salamah is located in Mandatory Palestine
Salamah
Salamah
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°02′57″N 34°48′18″E / 32.04917°N 34.80500°E / 32.04917; 34.80500
Palestine grid131/161
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Date of depopulation25 April 1948[2]
Area
 • Total6,782 dunams (6.782 km2 or 2.619 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total6,730[1]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesTel Aviv

Salamah (Arabic: سلمة) was a Palestinian Arab village, located five kilometers east of Jaffa, that was depopulated in the lead-up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The town contains the supposed grave of Salama Abu Hashim, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His tomb, two village schools, and ten houses from among the over 800 houses that had made up the village, are all that remain of the structures of the former village today.[3][4]

  1. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 28
  2. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #208. Also gives the cause of depopulation.
  3. ^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 254-5
  4. ^ "Welcome to Salamah". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 4 December 2007.