Ceramics from the
Iron Age II,
Hellenistic, early and late
Roman,
Byzantine, early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here. In 1179, during the
Crusader era, it appeared as an estate, sold to the
Zion Monastery in Jerusalem.
Ottoman era In 1517, Seida, like all of
Palestine, was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire. In the 1596
tax registers, it was part of the
nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal
Sami, part of the larger
Sanjak of Nablus. It had a population of 70 households and 2 bachelors, all
Muslims. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 12,160
akçe. All of the revenue went to a
Waqf. In 1870/1871 (1288
AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the
nahiya (sub-district) of al-Sha'rawiyya al-Sharqiyya. In the 1882
PEF's
Survey of Western Palestine (SWP),
Saida is described as: "a small village, with a
well on the east on the back of a long and bare ridge."
British Mandate era In the
1922 census of Palestine conducted by the
British Mandate authorities, Saida had a population of 252 Muslims, increasing in the
1931 census to 351 Muslims, living in 75 houses. In the
1945 statistics the population of Seida was 450 Muslims, with 5,060
dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1,622 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,113 were used for cereals, while 11 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
Jordanian era In the wake of the
1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the
1949 Armistice Agreements, Seida came under
Jordanian rule. In 1961, the population was 808.
Post 1967 Since the
Six-Day War in 1967, Seida has been under
Israeli occupation. ==Notable people==