Selamin (Hebrew: צלמין)(Greek: Σελάμην), also known as Tzalmon, Selame, Salamis / Salamin,[2] Zalmon,[3] and Khurbet es Salâmeh (the Ruin of Salameh),[4] was a Jewish village in Lower Galilee during the Second Temple period, formerly fortified by Josephus,[5][6] and which was captured by the Roman Imperial army in circa 64 CE.

The valley runs in a northerly-southerly direction, deriving its name from Khurbet es Salameh, the said ruin of Selamin (Salamis) which formerly crowned a strong and extensive site.

The Jewish population of Selamin in the 1st century-CE consisted of a sacerdotal tribe linked to the course of Dalaiah, mentioned in the apocryphal roster of Second Temple kohenim and their respective villages, and who were first named in a poem composed by Eleazar beRabbi Qallir (c. 570 – c.

[18] Israeli historian Bezalel Bar-Kochva thinks that the strategic importance of the site was in its geographical location, where it blocked one of the routes leading from the Phoenician territory to the eastern plateau of Lower Galilee.

According to Mordechai Aviam of the Institute for Galilean Archaeology at the University of Rochester who surveyed the site, "There is only a narrow saddle connecting the hill to the north-west, and it is clearly cut by a moat.