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Nablus from the 1871–1877 PEF Survey of Palestine Nablus in 1857, photo by Francis Frith. Nablus came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire in 1517, along with the whole of Palestine. The Ottomans divided Palestine into six sanjaks ('districts'): Safad, Jenin, Jerusalem, Gaza, Ajlun and Nablus, all of which were part of Ottoman Syria.
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.
After his reign ended in 1804, Nablus regained its autonomy, and the Tuqans, who represented a principal opposing force, rose to power. [12] In 1831–32 Khedivate Egypt, then led by Muhammad Ali, conquered Palestine from the Ottomans; the destruction of Acre and further increased the political importance of Nablus. Throughout the 18th and 19th ...
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]
Tell (Arabic: تلّ), pronounced Till, is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus.According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 5,162 inhabitants in 2017. [1]
’Azmut (Arabic: عزموط) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located five kilometers northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 3,440 inhabitants in 2017.
Sebastia (Arabic: سبسطية, Sabastiyah; Greek: Σεβαστη, Sevasti; Hebrew: סבסטיה, Sebastiya; Latin: Sebaste) is a Palestinian village of about 3,205 inhabitants, [2] located in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, some 12 kilometers northwest of the city of Nablus.
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