inhabitants, located in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, some 12 kilometers northwest of the city of Nablus. Sebastia is believed to be one...
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Sebastia (also Sebastea, Sebasteia; Greek Σεβαστεία) may refer to: Sebastia, Nablus, a Palestinian village in the West Bank Sivas (Latin: Sebasteia),...
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Nablus (/ˈnæbləs, ˈnɑːbləs/ NA(H)B-ləs; Arabic: نابلس, romanized: Nāblus [ˈnæːblʊs, -lɪs] ; Hebrew: שכם, romanized: Šəḵem, ISO 259-3: Škem, pronounced...
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The Nablus Governorate (Arabic: محافظة نابلس Muḥāfaẓat Nāblus) is an administrative district of Palestine located in the Central Highlands of the West...
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the Jewish king Herod the Great, who also fortified it and renamed it "Sebastia" in honour of the Roman emperor Augustus. The ancient city's hill is where...
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Samaria (redirect from Sebastia, Samaria)
Arabic under two names, Samirah (Arabic: السَّامِرَة, as-Sāmira), and Mount Nablus (جَبَل نَابُلُس, Jabal Nābulus). The first-century historian Josephus set...
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Roman times Pompeiopolis, later called Sebaste during Roman times Sebastia, Nablus, or Sebaste in Palæstina, a village in the West Bank, known as Samaria...
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The Nablus Sanjak (Arabic: سنجق نابلس; Turkish: Nablus Sancağı) was an administrative area that existed throughout Ottoman rule in the Levant (1517–1917)...
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Byzantines. In the aftermath of Ajnadayn, Amr captured the towns of Sebastia, Nablus, Lydda, Yibna, Amwas, Bayt Jibrin and Jaffa. Most of these towns fell...
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ostraca found in 1910 in excavations in ancient Samaria (modern-day Sebastia, Nablus) led by George Andrew Reisner of the Harvard Semitic Museum. These...
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