Sajur

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Sajur
  • סָג'וּר, סאג'ור‎
  • ساجور‎
Local council
Hebrew transcription(s)
 •  ISO 259 Saǧur
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Sajur
Coordinates: 32°56′23.2″N35°20′29.6″E / 32.939778°N 35.341556°E / 32.939778; 35.341556
Grid position182/260 PAL
Country Flag of Israel.svg  Israel
District Northern
Area
 • Total
3,296  dunams (3.296 km2 or 1.273 sq mi)
Population
 (2022) [1]
 • Total
4,481
 • Density1,400/km2 (3,500/sq mi)
Name meaningSeijur, possibly from "a dog collar", or "red turbid water" [2]

Sajur (Hebrew : סָג'וּר; Arabic : ساجور) is a Druze town (local council) in the Galilee region of northern Israel, with an area of 3,000 dunams (3 km2). It achieved recognition as an independent local council in 1992. In 2022 it had a population of 4,481. [1]

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History

Sajur is identified with Shazur, an ancient village associated with Simeon Shezuri. [3] According to Jewish traditions, Ishmael ben Elisha ha-Kohen, Simeon Shezuri and Simeon ben Eleazar are buried in Sajur. [4]

Excavations in 1951, 1980 and 1993, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed, respectively, a tomb with 13 loculi that dated to the Roman–Byzantine periods, a tomb with eight or nine loculi dating to the end of the second century CE and a small tomb with a single room dating to the first–second centuries CE. A salvage dig in January 2002, prior to building a car park, revealed a bedrock-hewn cave, devoid of finds, which may have been a tomb, and various unremarkable finds, although the presence of many finds at the bottom of the stratigraphic sequence is evidence of Iron Age occupation at Sajur. [5]

In the Crusader era Sajur was known as Seisor or Saor. [6] In 1249 John Aleman transferred land, including the casalia of Beit Jann, Sajur, Majd al-Krum and Nahf to the Teutonic Knights. [7]

In 1322 Marino Sanuto the Elder showed Sajur on his map, named Seggori. [8]

Ottoman Empire

Sajur was mentioned as a village in the Ottoman defter for the year 1555-6, located in the Nahiya of Acre of the Liwa of Safad. The land was designated as Sahi land, that is, land belonging to the Sultan. [9]

In 1875, Victor Guérin noted that "It is today a small village, inhabited by Druze; it is located on a hill that was once completely covered with houses. At the bottom, some gardens are planted with fig, olive, pomegranate and mulberry trees." [10]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A village, built of stone, containing about 100 Druzes; in the plain, with olives and arable land; water from cisterns and spring near". [11]

A population list from about 1887 showed that Sejur had 190 inhabitants; all Druze. [12]

British Mandate

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Sajur had a population of 196; 176 Druze, 17 Muslims and 3 Christians, [13] where the Christians were all Orthodox. [14] The population increased in the 1931 census to 254; 141 Druze, 11 Muslims and 2 Christians, in a total of 53 houses. [15]

In the 1945 statistics, Sajur had 350 inhabitants; 10 Muslims and 340 classified as “others” (=Druze). [16] They owned a total of 8,172 dunams of land, while 64 dunams were public. [17] 4 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 1,380 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,933 for cereals, [18] while 7 dunams were built-up (urban) land. [19]

Israel

In 1992, Sajur was recognized as a local council.

Demographics

According to Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a low ranking (3 out of 10) on the country's socioeconomic index (December 2001). The average salary that year was NIS 3,531 per month, whereas the national average was NIS 6,835.

Notable people

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ↑ Palmer, 1881, pp. 93, 50, 65
  3. ↑ Rozenfeld, Ben Tsiyon (2010). Torah centers and rabbinic activity in Palestine, 70-400 CE: history and geographic distribution. Chava Cassel. Leiden: Brill. p. 140. ISBN   978-90-474-4073-4. OCLC   695990313.
  4. ↑ Hadad, David. (2007), Ma'aseh Avos . Feldheim Publishers. p. 211 and p. 496. ISBN   1583309632
  5. ↑ Barbe, 2006, Sajur
  6. ↑ Frankel, 1988, pp. 265, 267
  7. ↑ Strehlke, 1869, pp. 78-79, No. 100; cited in Röhricht, 1893, RHH, p. 308, No. 1175; cited in Frankel, 1988, p. 254
  8. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 208
  9. ↑ Rohde, 1979, p. 95
  10. ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 453
  11. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 204
  12. ↑ Schumacher, 1888, p. 174
  13. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Acre, p. 36
  14. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XVI, p. 50
  15. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 102
  16. ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
  17. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
  18. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81
  19. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 131

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