Salama

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Salama, Jaffa

Salamah (Arabic: سلمة‎) was a Palestinian Arab village, located five kilometers east of Jaffa, that was depopulated in the lead up the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The town was named for Salamah 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. 'Salameh street', now on the border of Tel Aviv and Jaffa is named after the historic village.

History

Ottoman era

In 1596, under Ottoman rule, Salamah was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa of Gaza), with a population of 94. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives. In the late nineteenth century, the village was described as being built of adobe brick, with a few gardens and wells.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Salameh had a population of 1,187, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 3,691 inhabitants, still all Muslims, in 800 houses.

Salama (roller coaster)

Salama (English: Lightning) is a steel roller coaster located at Linnanmäki in Helsinki, Finland. It was constructed for the 2008 season. It is built on top of Hurjakuru, a river rafting ride.

Salama got its name from Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.

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