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Nablus

city in the West Bank, State of Palestine
City City Q214178

Facts

23 properties

Designation

Instance of
city
Heritage designation
Tentative World Heritage Site[37]

Location

Country
Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Empire, Mandatory Palestine, Jordan, Palestine, Roman Empire[4][5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 32.221°, 35.261°, 🗺️ 32.221°, 35.263°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Nablus Governorate[3]
Postal code
P400[19]
More facts +17
Official website
www.nablus.org[20]
Capital of
Nablus sanjak, Nablus Subdistrict, Nablus Governorate[34][35][36]
Area
+29[42]
Described by source
Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[26][27][28][29][30][31][32]
Elevation above sea level
+550[41]
Head of government
Husam Shakhshir[6]
Member of
Organization of Islamic Capitals and Cities, The Association of Palestinian Local Authorities APLA[1][2]
Native label
نابلس, שְׁכֶם[39][40]
Official language
Arabic[7]
Official name
نابلس[38]
PCBS locality code
150920
Population
60k (60k–178k, n=4)[21][22][23][24]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 177,638 · 155,545 · 146,493 · 60,000 GeoNames 130,326 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Replaces
Shechem[33]
Time of earliest written record
1200 BC[25]
Twinned administrative body
Poznań, Dundee, Lille, Naples, Stavanger, Florence, Khasavyurt, Como, Tuscany, Rabat, Fez[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Vocalized name
שְׁכֶם
World Heritage criteria
(ii), (iv)[43][44]
🏷️ Also known as
en Nablus en Mint of Neapolis en Shechem en Neapolis en Nabulus ar مدينة نابلس ar نابلس cs Šekem cs Šchem cs Nábul cs Náblus cs Flavie Neapolská cs Flavia Neapolis el Νεάπολις el Ναμπλούς fi Sikem fi Flavia Neapolis fr Nablus fr Shechem fr Flavia Neapolis
🔖 Identifiers · 59
VIAF cluster ID
262282354
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n83048641
GND ID
4102328-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
البلدة القديمة - نابلس.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
8606
Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
nablus
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13184202m
Biblissima authority ID
Alexander
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf12026467
Comic Vine ID
4020-61616
Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID
3281
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
21655
Show all 59 identifiers +47
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
8cc4adab-36a3-4a07-8783-1a311842e353
Edition humboldt digital ID
H0017209
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Nablus
FAST ID
1224676
Facebook location ID
108036179217287
FactGrid item ID
Mirko Casper
Freebase ID
/m/01hxx6
GNS Unique Feature ID
-795575
GeoNames ID
282615
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
nabulus-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0045213
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Nablus
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2242984
Harper's tag
nablus
IdRef ID
035360321
Interlingual Index ID
i83072
Israel Antiquities Authority ID
20
J9U entity ID
987007536656805171
Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)
14968
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
1529
Lex ID
Nablus
Mapcarta ID
Nablus
Museum-digital place ID
11877, 31323
MusicBrainz area ID
470a1cfc-d80b-4ba4-9567-b474fcbdb80b
Münzkabinett ID
location/3320
NL CR AUT ID
ge1287308
National Library of Brazil ID
000085262
National Library of Ireland ID
vtls001154809
Nomisma ID
neapolis_syria
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3945066
OpenStreetMap node ID
293546203
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtRl2di5laWV
Pleiades ID
678301
Radio Algeria topic ID (Arabic)
نابلس
SNARC ID
Nordwestmecklenburg District
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
nablus
Topic's main category
Category:Nablus, Wikidata item
ToposText place ID
322352UNea
Trismegistos Geo ID
12640
Vatican Library VcBA ID
497/1952
Vikidia article ID
fr:Naplouse
Wellcome Collection concept ID
kwgdbpc7
Who's on First ID
101921387
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
08811598-n
World Heritage Tentative List ID
5714
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJgt8Vk9wH4fX4bdCcJYyd
Yale LUX ID
concept/3d0fb827-63f0-44d6-a765-469b9a454268

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🔗 Connections
People born here 40
Justin Martyr, Isabella I of Jerusalem, Hanan Ashrawi, Salam Fayyad, Fadwa Tuqan, Suha Arafat, Ibrāhīm tooqān, Sahar Khalifeh +32 more
Contained subdivisions 16
Joseph's Tomb, Nabulsi soap, An-Najah National University, Great Mosque of Nablus, An-Nasr Mosque, Al-Khadra Mosque, 42, Palestine Stock Exchange +8 more
Twinned administrative body 11
Florence, Naples, Rabat, Tuscany, Lille, Poznań, Fez, Como +3 more
← Twinned administrative body 11
Florence, Naples, Rabat, Tuscany, Lille, Poznań, Fez, Como +3 more
People who died here 7
Fadwa Tuqan, Fawzi al-Mulki, Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, Philoumenos of Jacob's Well, Frederick de la Roche, Seffarini, Bassam Shakaa
Country 5
Jordan, Palestine, Ottoman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Mandatory Palestine
Described by source 5
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Located in this place 4
Council of Nablus, Battle of Nablus, February 2023 Nablus incursion, Huwara Checkpoint
← Headquarters location 4
Lion's Den, Palestine Stock Exchange, National Bloc, The Nationalism Committee in Palestine
Residents 3
Munib al-Masri, Abdulrahman Thaher, Majida Al-Masri
Capital of 2
Nablus Governorate, Nablus sanjak
Located in time zone 2
UTC+03:00, UTC+02:00
Named after 2
Damascus Gate, Nabulsi soap
← Capital 2
Nablus Governorate, Nablus sanjak
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Nablus
FactGrid item ID 1
Mirko Casper
Heritage designation 1
Tentative World Heritage Site
Instance of 1
city
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Nablus Governorate
Official language 1
Arabic
Replaces 1
Shechem
SNARC ID 1
Nordwestmecklenburg District
Topic's main category 1
Category:Nablus
← Ancestral home 1
Abdulrahman Thaher
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Nablus
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Nablus
← FactGrid item ID 1
Steventon
← Filming location 1
Paradise Now
← Narrative location 1
Paradise Now
← Operating area 1
Jenin Brigades
← Place of burial 1
Qadri Hafiz Tuqan
← Replaced by 1
Shechem
← Work location 1
Machsom Watch
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Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Nablus include Damascus Gate[45], a city gate[46], in Palestine[47], founded in 1537[48] and Nabulsi soap[49], an industry[50], in Palestine[51].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Nablus include Damascus Gate[45], a city gate[46], in Palestine[47], founded in 1537[48] and Nabulsi soap[49], an industry[50], in Palestine[51].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity West Bank high0.98confirmed21 independent sources

evidence “A Palestinian woman carrying a child walks past members of the Israeli occupation army and armoured vehicles during an Israeli military operation at the Balata camp for Palestinian refugees, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on August 31, 2026.” thepeninsulaqatar.com · read source

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Located in the administrative territorial entity occupied West Bank low0.466 independent sources

evidence “A Palestinian woman carrying a child walks past members of the Israeli occupation army and armoured vehicles during an Israeli military operation at the Balata camp for Palestinian refugees, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on August 31, 2026.” thepeninsulaqatar.com · read source

Located in the administrative territorial entity northern West Bank low0.142 independent sources

evidence “NABLUS, August 31, 2026 (WAFA) — Israeli forces today demolished a two-story house in the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.” english.wafa.ps · read source

Related Entities

An-Najah National University city Como Fadwa Tuqan Hanan Ashrawi Isabella I of Jerusalem Jordan Justin Martyr Nablus University for Vocational and Technical Education Palestine Palestine Telecommunications Company Salam Fayyad Suha Arafat

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] ↑ . nablus.org. nablus.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . nablus.org. nablus.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . nablus.org. nablus.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [21] ↑ . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . Muʻjam buldān Filasṭīn (Dār al-Maʼmūn, 1987). wikidata.org.
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  40. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [41] ↑ . Muʻjam buldān Filasṭīn (Dār al-Maʼmūn, 1987). wikidata.org.
  42. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Andrew012p · 2026-11-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → 32.221°, 35.261°, 32.221°, 35.263°
    "Added [mk] label: Наблус"
  2. 8w ago · Abductive · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → 32.221°, 35.261°, 32.221°, 35.263°
    "Changed claim: Coordinate location: 32°13'16"N, 35°15'39"E"
  3. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → nablus
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: nablus, Matched to nablus (#289955528) in Harper's tag #mix'n'mat"
  4. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #43894: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  5. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    PCBS locality code → 150920
    Biblissima authority ID → Alexander
    "Created claim: Biblissima authority ID: Q28169, Import ID Biblissima V3 (details)"
  6. 23w ago · דג ירוק · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Product or material produced → —
    "Changed claim: Coordinate location: 32°13'15.092"N, 35°15'46.411"E"
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