[1] In the early 13th century, the geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi described Sârûniyyah as "a pass near Tabariyya, you go up it to reach At Tûr".

[3] Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, Sharona appeared under the name of Saruniyya in the 1596 tax registers as being in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Tabariyya under the Liwa of Safad.

[10] The impact of World War I, poor conditions, and the lack of sufficient manpower kept the new settlement impoverished and debt-ridden.

[10] In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the new and old settlements together contained 92 inhabitants; 77 Muslims and 15 Jews.

[14] In 1938, a moshav was established by members of the Gordonia organization,[10] with the cost borne by the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association and the Agricultural Workers Federation.