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The Nablus business developed from an ice-factory set up by Mohammad Anabtawi in the town centre in 1950. It produces 50 tons a day, and exports to Jordan and Iraq. Most of the ingredients are imported from Israel. [80] Before 2000, 13.4% of Nablus' residents worked in Israel, with the figure dropping to 4.7% in 2004.
Tell Balata (Arabic: تل بلاطة) is an archaeological site in the West Bank near Nablus, Palestine, that includes the remains of an ancient Canaanite and Israelite [1] city, identified since 1913 with the Biblical city of Shechem. [2]
The Nablus Governorate (Arabic: محافظة نابلس Muḥāfaẓat Nāblus) is an administrative district of Palestine located in the Central Highlands of the West Bank, 53 km north of Jerusalem. It covers the area around the city of Nablus which serves as the muhfaza (seat) of the governorate.
[1] [9] At the time, the linen produced in Nablus was well known throughout the Old World. [10] Ottoman Turks, who conquered the city in 1517, Nablus served as the administrative and commercial centre for the Nablus Sanjak, roughly corresponding to the modern-day northern West Bank. During the 16th century, the population was predominantly Muslim.
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In ancient times, Sebastia was known as Shomron (Hebrew: שומרון, romanized: Šomron) which translates into "watch" or "watchman" in English. [14]The city bearing the ancient Hebrew name of Shomron later gave its name to the central region of the Land of Israel, surrounding the city of Shechem (modern-day Nablus). [15]
According to Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, Israel has confiscated 282 dunams of Huwwara land for the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar. [30] During the Second Intifada, in October 2000, the Huwwara Checkpoint was established north of Huwara, as one of the Israeli checkpoints around Nablus controlling traffic between this city and Ramallah ...