page_title: Balad al-Sheikh
section_title: Ottoman era
hierarchical_section_title: Balad al-Sheikh / History / Ottoman era
caption_attribution_description: The City Nesher on Mount Carmel and Suburb: Tel Hanan תל חנן שכונה בעיר נשר. בתי השכונה נבנו על הכפר הערבי בלד א-שייח' שניטש באפריל 1948 יחד עם נטישת תושבי חיפה הערביים את חיפה. תל חנן יושבה על ידי עולים חדשים אשר התיישבו בבתים הנטושים. עם השנים נהרסו בתים אלה ונבנו שיכונים. קבר בבית הקברות המוסלמי בשכונת תל חנן. קברו של שייח' עבדאללה אל סהלי. היה שייח' דרווישי, איש דת סופי שחי בתחילת המאה ה-16
context_page_description: Balad al-Sheikh or Balad ash-Shaykh was a Palestinian Arab village located just north of Mount Carmel, 7 kilometers southeast of Haifa. Currently the town's land is located within the jurisdiction of the Israeli city, Nesher.
context_section_description: The town is named after Sheikh Abdullah as-Sahli, a renowned Sufi, who was granted the taxes collected from the village by Sultan Salim II (1566-1574). The village contains a maqam ("shrine") dedicated to him. His grave is located in the Balad al-Sheikh cemetery on Mount Carmel.
  In 1816, British traveller James Silk Buckingham passed by "Belled-el-Sheikh".
  In 1859, the village had an estimated "200 souls", and the tillage was 20 feddans, while in 1875, Victor Guérin estimated that the village had a population of 500. He described that the houses were built by successive stages, one above the other; and almost all had a cabin made with tree branches at the top. This was where, during the summer, people spend the night to get cooler. Guérin further noted that at the lower end of the village were "cultivated gardens, surrounded by cactus and planted with olive, pomegranate and fig trees, and dominated by the elegant stems of several palm trees".
  In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as "a moderate-sized village at the foot of Carmel, with good springs below near the road, and olive gardens with a few palm trees".
caption: Sheikh Abdullah as-Sahli grave in Balad ash-Sheikh cemetery, 2010
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