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    Balata village (Arabic: بلاطة البلد, lit. 'Balata al-Balad') is a Palestinian suburb of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, located 1 kilometer (0.62 mi)...
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    Balata Camp (Arabic: مخيم بلاطة) is a Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern West Bank in 1950, adjacent to Balata village on the outskirts...
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    Fountain or the Well of Sychar, is a Christian holy site located in Balata village, a suburb of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank. The well...
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  • Balata may refer to: Balata village or Balata al-Balad, a suburb of Nablus, West Bank Balata Camp, a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank Tell Balata...
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    Yosef; Arabic: قبر يوسف, Qabr Yūsuf) is a funerary monument located in Balata village at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim...
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    following localities have populations above 1,000 and village councils of 3 to 9 members. Askar Balata Ein Beit al-Ma' Governorates of Palestine "Main Indicators...
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    Shechem. It is located in the West Bank. The built-up area of Balata, a Palestinian village and suburb of Nablus, covers about one-third of the tell, and...
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    Kiryat Luza (category Villages in the West Bank)
    Hebrew: ࠒࠓࠉࠕ ࠋࠅࠆࠄ‎, Arabic: قرية لوزة, Hebrew: קרית לוזה) is a Samaritan village situated on Mount Gerizim near the city of Nablus in the West Bank. It...
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    limits today are Ein Beit al-Ma', Balata and Askar. During the Jordanian period, the adjacent villages of Rafidia, Balata al-Balad, al-Juneid and Askar were...
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    and transferred to the settlement of Gittit. Nearby hamlets surround the village and are considered to be natural extensions of Aqraba; they are the khirbets...
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    Huwara (redirect from Howwarah village)
    neighboring villages of Quza and Beita which left ten men and seven women dead. Victor Guérin visited the village in 1870. He found the village, (which he...
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  • Ein Shibli (category Villages in the West Bank)
    42389°E / 32.22917; 35.42389 Ein Shibli (Arabic: عين شبلي) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 15.6 kilometers...
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  • extensive estates in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. One of these was the Balata village, which was the site of the Biblical Jacob's Well, and had a priory there...
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    As-Sawiya (category Villages in the West Bank)
    Sharqiya to the west, and Yatma, Qabalan and Yasuf to the north. At the village site, sherds from IA II (8th and 7th century BCE), the Persian or the early...
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    Sebastia, Nablus (category Villages in the West Bank)
    Sevasti; Hebrew: סבסטיה, Sebastiya; Latin: Sebaste) is a Palestinian village of about 3,205 inhabitants, located in the Nablus Governorate of the State...
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    Duma, Nablus (category Villages in the West Bank)
    resulted in the death of an 18 months old child and both his parents in the village. Duma is located 20.3 km southeast of Nablus. It is bordered by Al Jiftlik...
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  • Al Aqrabaniya (category Villages in the West Bank)
    32.25306; 35.37778 Al Aqrabaniya (Arabic: العقربانية) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 12.1 kilometers...
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    v t e Nablus Governorate Cities Nablus (Balata village • Juneid • Rafidia) Municipalities Aqraba (Yanun) Asira al-Shamaliya Beita (Za'tara) Beit Furik...
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    the western part of the Palestinian city of Nablus. It was a separate village until it was merged into the municipality in 1966. In 1961, Rafidiya had...
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    Salim, Nablus (category Villages in the West Bank)
    Beit Dajan and Beit Furik to the south. The village is ancient with foundations of houses. The village has been populated in Early Bronze I, Iron Age...
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    the village] consists of heaps of stones". Finkelstein noted that "most of the area of the present village is relatively modern". In 1517, the village was...
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    Tell, Nablus (category Villages in the West Bank)
    Tell. Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here. In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and it appeared...
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    Urif (category Villages in the West Bank)
    Urif (Arabic: عوريف) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 13 kilometers (8...
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    Burqa, Nablus (category Villages in the West Bank)
    Burqa (Arabic: بُرقه) is a village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, Palestine, located northwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian...
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    Zawata (category Villages in the West Bank)
    the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Wadi al-Sha'ir. In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Zawata as: "a village of moderate...
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    Jalud (category Throne villages)
    Jalud (Arabic: جاﻟﻭﺩ) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank. It is approximately 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of...
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    of Nablus, Shechem is now identified with the nearby site of Tell Balata in the Balata al-Balad suburb of the West Bank. Shechem's position is indicated...
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  • Beit Wazan (category Villages in the West Bank)
    Beit Wazan (Arabic: بيت وزن) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 4.5 kilometers...
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    Jurish (category Villages in the West Bank)
    found here. It has been proposed to identify Jurish with Geresh, a Jewish village of the late Second Temple period mentioned by Josephus as the birthplace...
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    Majdal Bani Fadil (category Villages in the West Bank)
    under the local administration of a nine-member village council headed by Walid Othman. Most of the village's residents are from the Othman and Zayn ad-Din...
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