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Nablus (nă`bləs, nä`–), Heb. Shechem, city (2003 est. pop. 127,000), the West Bank West Bank, territory, formerly part of Palestine , after 1949 administered by Jordan, since 1967 largely occupied by Israel (2005 est. pop. 2,386,000), 2,165 sq mi (5,607 sq km), west of the Jordan River, incorporating the northwest quadrant of the Dead Sea.
..... Click the link for more information. . It is the market center for a region where wheat and olives are grown and sheep and goats are grazed. Manufactures include soap made from olive oil and colorful shepherds' coats. The city is linked by highway with Jerusalem. Nablus, an ancient Canaanite town, has remains dating from c.2000 B.C., about the time when the city was held by Egypt. The Samaritans (see under Samaria Samaritans, of whom a small remnant still live at Nablus and Jaffa, Israel. The Samaritans are the descendants of non-Jewish colonists from Babylonia, Syria, and elsewhere who were settled in Samaria when the Israelites were deported (722 B.C.
..... Click the link for more information. ) made it their capital and built a temple on nearby Gerizim Gerizim (gĕr`əzĭm, gērī`–), Arabic Jabal at Tur,
..... Click the link for more information. to rival that of Jerusalem. Nablus still has a small community of Samaritans. The city was destroyed (129 B.C.) by John Hyrcanus I. Under Hadrian it was rebuilt and named Flavia Neapolis, from which the present name derives. Nearby are the reputed sites of the tomb of Joseph and the well of Jacob (the shrine at Joseph's tomb was destroyed during an anti-Israeli riot in 2000). The city came under Israeli occupation following the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. Nablus has long been a center of Arab nationalism, and the city's Palestinian refugee camps exacerbated tensions between residents and Israeli troops. During the Intifada Intifada (ĭntēfă`dĕ) [Arab.
..... Click the link for more information. , it was the scene of ongoing violent clashes between Arabs and Jews. Israeli forces left the city in 1995 as part of the agreement establishing Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank, but in the renewed violence that began in 2000 the city was again the scene of Palestinian-Israeli fighting.

Nablus

a town in the West Bank: near the site of ancient Shechem. Pop.: 136 000 (2005 est.)

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