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| name                  = Misilyah
| translit_lang1        = Arabic
| translit_lang1_type   = [[Arabic script|Arabic]]
| translit_lang1_info   = مسلية
| type                  = [[Village council (Palestinian Authority)|Municipality type D (Village council)]]
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| pushpin_map_caption   = Location of Misilyah within the [[West Bank]]##Location of Misilyah within [[State of Palestine|Palestine]]
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| grid_name             = [[Palestine grid|Palestine&nbsp;grid]]
| grid_position         = 177/199
| subdivision_type      = State
| subdivision_name      = [[State of Palestine]]
| subdivision_type1     = [[Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority|Governorate]]
| subdivision_name1     = [[Jenin Governorate|Jenin]]
| established_title     = Founded
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| population_footnotes= <ref name="PrelimCensus2017">{{cite report |date=February 2018 |title=Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 |url=https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2364-1.pdf |department=[[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]] (PCBS) |publisher=[[State of Palestine]] |pages=64–82 |access-date=2023-10-24}}</ref>
| population_total      = 2884
| population_as_of      = 2017
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| blank_info_sec1       = 'an example', In Phænician:  'an image', in old Arabic it means: 'traces of a dwelling which are becoming effaced'<ref>Palmer, 1881, pp.  [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/112/mode/1up 112] [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/188/mode/1up 188]</ref>
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'''Misilyah''' ({{langx|ar|مسلية}}), sometimes spelled '''Mithilîyeh''' and '''Misilîyeh''', is a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] village in the northern [[West Bank]], located 14 kilometers south of the city of [[Jenin]]. According to the [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]], the village had a population of 2,252 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,884 by 2017.<ref name="PrelimCensus2017" /><ref>[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop01.aspx Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920093125/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop01.aspx |date=2008-09-20 }} [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]]</ref> The main agricultural crops cultivated in Misilya are olives, grapes, figs, and vegetables. Roman and Islamic ruins have been found in the village.

==Geography==
Misilyah is situated in a small plain in the foothills of Jabal Faḳu'ah, or [[Mount Gilboa]].<ref name="Bethulia">{{cite encyclopedia |title= Bethulia (Bαιτουλοόα, Bαιτουλία, Bετυλοόα, Bαιτυλοόα; Vulgate, Bethulia) |encyclopedia=[[The Jewish Encyclopedia]] |author1= Marcus Jastrow |author2= Frants Buhl |publisher= Funk & Wagnalls |year= 1901–1906 |url= http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3228-bethulia |access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref> The plain, Marj al-Gharaḳ, also spelled Merj el-Ghǔrǔk, which lacks any natural drainage, was described at the beginning of the 20th century as transforming into a large swamp during the rainy season, only to dry up in summer, when the resulting field was cultivated with grain.<ref name="JewishEnc">{{cite encyclopedia |title= Palestine |encyclopedia=[[The Jewish Encyclopedia]] |author1= Joseph Jacobs |author2= Immanuel Benzinger |author3= Judah David Eisenstein |publisher= Funk & Wagnalls |year= 1901–1906 |url= http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11866-palestine |access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref>

==History==
It's believed that Misilyah was established sometime after the 16th century. It appears in [[Defter|tax records]] dating back to 1671. The locals of [[Qabatiya]] consider Misilyah to be an offshoot of their village, with some residents originating from nearby villages.<ref>Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in '''Shomron studies'''. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 350</ref>

[[Claude Reignier Conder|C. R. Conder]] suggested  in the 1880s that Misilyah was ancient [[Bethulia]],<ref>Conder, 1881, pp.[https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme13pale#page/n219/mode/1up 194]–195 </ref><ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp03conduoft#page/436/mode/1up 436]-437</ref> but [[Adam Zertal|Zertal]], 2004, found no archeological evidence supporting this.<ref name="Zertal228">Zertal, 2004, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC&pg=PA228 228]-[https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC&pg=PA229 229]</ref>

Pottery [[sherd]]s from the late [[Roman Empire|Roman]],  [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]], early [[Muslim]] and Medieval eras have been found here.<ref name="Zertal228" />
===Ottoman era===
In 1838,  [[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Edward Robinson]] noted the village when he travelled in the region, as bordering the extremely fertile [[Marj Sanur]].<ref>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n170/mode/1up 153]</ref> He listed  it as part of the District of ''Haritheh'', north of Nablus.<ref>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2 appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/130/mode/1up 130]</ref>

In 1870,  [[Victor Guérin]] noted it, "sitting on the northern slopes of a hill planted with superb olive trees; at the bottom there is a fertile and well-cultivated plain."<ref>Guérin, 1874,  p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptionsam01gu#page/344/mode/1up 344]</ref>

In 1882, the [[Palestine Exploration Fund|PEF]]'s ''[[PEF Survey of Palestine|Survey of Western Palestine]]'' described ''Meselieh'': "A small village, with a detached portion to the north, and placed on a slope, with a hill to the south, and surrounded by good olive-groves, with an open valley called Wady el Melek (' the King's Valley') on the north. The water-supply is from  [[Water well|wells]], some of which have an ancient appearance. They are mainly supplied with rain-water."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/156/mode/1up 156]-157</ref>
===British Mandate era===
In the [[1922 census of Palestine]] conducted by the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate authorities]], ''Meselayyeh'' had a population 190 [[Muslim]]s,<ref>Barron, 1923,  Table V, Sub-district of Jenin, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n31/mode/1up 29]</ref> increasing  in the [[1931 census of Palestine|1931 census]] to 222 Muslim, in  a total of 49 houses.<ref name="Census1931">Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas  69]</ref>

In the  [[Village Statistics, 1945|1945 statistics]]   the population was 330 Muslims,<ref name=DoS1945>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p16.jpg 16] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905203337/http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p16.jpg |date=2018-09-05 }}</ref> with a total of 9,038  [[dunam]]s of land, according to an official land and population survey.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Jinin/Page-054.jpg 54]</ref>  Of this, 2,683  dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,592  dunams were for cereals,<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi,  1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Jinin/Page-099.jpg 99]</ref> while a total of  23 dunams were built-up, urban land.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in  Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Jinin/Page-149.jpg 149]</ref>
===Jordanian era===
In the wake of the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]], and after the [[1949 Armistice Agreements]], Misilyah came under [[Jordan]]ian rule.

In 1961, the population of ''Misilya'' was 606.<ref>Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p25.pdf 25]</ref>

===Post-1967===
After the [[Six-Day War]] in 1967,  Misilyah  has been under [[Israeli occupation of the West Bank|Israeli occupation]].

On 17 January 2016 a 21 year old resident of Masliya was shot dead by Israeli soldiers.<ref>[http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769848  Palestinian shot dead near Nablus after alleged attempted attack] Ma'an 17/1/2016</ref><ref> [http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.697885 Palestinian Shot After Attempting to Stab Israelis in the West Bank] Ha'aretz 17/1/2016</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
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*{{cite book | editor =Barron, J.B.  | title = Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 |publisher = Government of Palestine | year = 1923}}
*{{cite journal | author = Conder, C.R.| author-link=Claude Reignier Conder| title = Meselieh | journal = Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund | volume = 13 | pages = [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme13pale#page/n219/mode/1up 194]–195 | url = https://archive.org/details/quarterlystateme13pale | year = 1881}} 
*{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1882|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp02conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]|volume=2}} 
*{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1883|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp03conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]|volume=3}}
*{{cite book | title = First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population | author = Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics | year = 1964|url=http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensus1961bits.pdf}}
*{{cite book|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945 |url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390|author=Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics|year=1945}}  
*{{cite book|last=Guérin|first=V.|author-link=Victor Guérin|title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptionsam01gu|volume=2: Samarie, pt. 1|year=1874|publisher= L'Imprimerie Nationale|location=Paris|language=fr}}
*{{cite book|title=Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|first=S.|last=Hadawi|author-link=Sami Hadawi|year=1970|publisher=Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center}} 
*{{cite book | editor = Mills, E.  | title = Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas |url=https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas | publisher = Government of Palestine | location = Jerusalem | year = 1932}}  
*{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|author-link=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=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|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]}}
*{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|author-link1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|author-link2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft |title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838|  location=Boston|publisher=[[Crocker & Brewster]]|volume=3}} 
*{{cite book|last=Zertal|first=A.|author-link=Adam Zertal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC |title=The Manasseh Hill Country Survey|volume=1|location=Boston|publisher=BRILL|year=2004|isbn=9004137564}}
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==External links==
*[http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Misilya_1421/index.html Welcome to Misilya], Palestine remembered
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: [https://web.archive.org/web/20181103214954/http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8373 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.11.jpg Wikimedia commons]
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