Not logged in : Login
(Sponging disallowed)

About: http://ods.openlinksw.com:8889/about/id/entity/http/www.kdze.info/tag/medline#nablus     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : foaf:Concept, within Data Space : www.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://www.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fods.openlinksw.com%3A8889%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fentity%2Fhttp%2Fwww.kdze.info%2Ftag%2Fmedline%23nablus

AttributesValues
focus
Description
  • Nablus (sometimes Nābulus; Arabic: نابلس‎   (help·info); IPA: [næːblʊs]; Hebrew: שכם‎, Šəḫem) (Biblical Shechem) is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately 63 kilometers (39 mi) north of Jerusalem, with a population of 321,000. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center. Founded by the Roman Emperor Vespasian in 72 CE as Flavia Neapolis, Nablus has been ruled by many empires over the course of its almost 2,000 year long history. In the 5th and 6th centuries, conflict between the city's Christian and Samaritan inhabitants climaxed in a series of Samaritan revolts against Byzantine rule, before their violent quelling in 529 CE drastically dwindled that community's numbers in the city. In 636, Neapolis, along with most of Palestine, came under the rule of the Islamic Arab Caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab; its name Arabicized to Nablus. In 1099, the...
type
is seeAlso of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git122 as of Jan 03 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: iSPARQL | ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Apr 5 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc25), Single-Server Edition (30 GB total memory, 26 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software