Selaa, Silaa, () is a municipality in the Tyre District in Southern Lebanon.
Etymology According to E. H. Palmer, Silảh comes from "the crevasse".Palmer, 1881, p. 33
History In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 250 Metuali inhabitants.Guérin, 1880, p. 263 He further noted: "Here I found an ancient press, the lid of a sarcophagus with acroteria, and a broken sarcophagus, at one of whose ends is a projection resembling an altar. Near it is a great grave with room for two bodies, with a partition wall left in the rock; and beside this an enormous detached block, hollowed out for two bodies, and resting on a surface purposely planed.'Guérin, 1880, p. 263; as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 139
Close to Silah, Guérin also found the ruins of a small village, completely destroyed, known as Kh. Fenian.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 139
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "a village, built of stone and of good materials, containing about 200 [..] Metawileh, on hill, with figs, olives, and arable land. Water from cisterns and a spring near."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 94 They further noted that it had a perennial spring, built up with masonry,Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 105 and that it was "an ancient site; there is a terraced hill; there are six sarcophagi and two olive-presses near the village."
Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 99.65% of registered voters in Selaa. 98.56% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/سلعا/المذاهب/
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External links Selaa, Localiban Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons