NABLUS
City of Jordan (50,000) occupied from the Israelis, principal town of the homonym district, 50 km N of Jerusalem 570 m on the southern slopes of the mount ‘ Eval. It is agricultural market and centre of alimentary small businesses; you weave them, chemistries, of the materials from construction and the matches. Splendidly situated between panoramic mountains of Gerizim and Ebal, Nablus is the larger city of the Cisgiordania: one typical Arabic citizen, a lot animated, with a charming historical centre. The profile of Nablus is punctuated from 30 minarets: one of most evocative belongs to the An-Nasir Mosque. To short distance from the mosque you will find the Touqan Castle, one old Turkish residence; although it belongs to private, they would have to allow to give a glance you to the garden and to the external architecture. To east of the mosque there is the most ancient Turkish bath still working of the country: constructed around to 1480, the delicious restored bath has one knows it of vapours, one knows it for the massages and an other centres them where you can be lain down on the pillows while sorseggiate black coffee or tea to the mint. The city was founded with the name of Flavia Neapolis from Tito in the 72 A.C. in the vicinities of the ancient Sichem. To the age of the Crusades (in the Middle Ages Napluso was called) was often to the centre of the conflicts between Christians and Muslims. It endured serious damages in 1834 when it came conquered from the Egyptians. In 1918 it was taken from Allenby. In 1949 it was annexed to the Jordan, but from June 1967 it is trained from Israel, than it militarily occupies it with the entire district. In Arab, Nabulus. The district of Nablus (2510 km²; 427.000 ), neighbour with Israel, extends to W of the Giordano river and is covered from one chain of reliefs culminating to 940 m in the mount ‘ Eval. Agriculture (cereals, citruses, dates) and breeding. Important near city is Jenin.
