What step Agdamk North Palestinian,spring breezes will find Tdaabk,The air of this place clean,so remember features, and effects,eager to see you,it examines and use all Hawwask to find what pleases Fedolk,there, after the fifteen kilometers to the north of the city of Nablus,falls City (Sebastya) historical;to tell Atshk and questions, I answer.It is famous for his (Sebastya), in addition to their effects,the planting apricots,and Jarang "peach" in its different forms,in addition to good people,The historical and religious respect for this village

.*** Site : located to the north-west of Nablus, 15 km, and the mountain on which the rise of 400-463 m above sea stool end lies surrounded by high hills and spreads to each of the mountains and easy villages and farms and cultivated fields and orchards green Fthb beautiful mountain landscape.The 'Sebastya' on the spot it was in town (Samaria), which date back to the Baneha Omri (about 885 in the 874-s. M)

*** Important historical and tourist town : Sebastya date back to 3000 years, as there are implications Arab Canaanite subsequent effects of Roman, Byzantine and Phoenician and Islamic,The renamed accustomed to King Schumer (official), which means goalkeeper

*** Population :The population of Sabastiya According to the statistics of 1997 in 2167, of whom 1092 people males and 1075 females and the young, including 50%Sebastya was in 1922 (572) were reached in 1931 (751) people in April 1945 estimated b (1020) breath and return them to their origin Burka and East Jordan, the Jerusalem District and Khirbat Azzun bin In the darkness of 18 / 11 / 1961 was Sebastya 1345 people (591 males and 754 females).As in 2005, reaching a population of the town of Sabastiya 3300 census estimated population of expatriate families Sebastya outside Palestine, about 4000 people

*** Unit of local government in the village :in the mid-1960s has been formed, the villager Sebastya in 1997 has been upgraded to the Village Council

*** Economic background : the town relies Sebastya in earnings primarily on agriculture and the large section of people from the town on the salaries of employees in government institutions and private,There has been a reasonable income for the imports of employment within the Green Line but in the political constituency of tourism as it brought it to zero

*** Infrastructure services available :provide municipal services to citizens the following :electricity :no electricity network Country Water :municipal provide citizens with safe drinking water from two sources :al-Haroun and the historical era, which dates back to Roman-buying water tanks from the neighboring waste wells :the municipal waste collection by car from the Japanese government and serve this car nearby villages also to the regulation, the area of municipal issuance of building permits and supervision

*** Schools in the town are three schools :

1-School males Sebastya 220 secondary students (from the seventh grade-guideline) scientific, literary

2-School males Sebastya basic 280 students (grades I-VI)

3-School females Sebastya 350 secondary students (grades I-steering-scientific and literary) and taught in the schools, three students and students from the town and the villages of place,Kora, Ajnsenia,half of Jubail and Beit two Iqdro and about 100 male and female students,The number of university students in the town of Sabastiya _______________ students studying at the universities of Palestine (Najah National University,Al-Quds Open University), as found in the village Field,The two clinics declared advanced medical services to the town and surrounding villages

*** Sabastiya.Previously Sebastya Samaritan Church, which rise about 463 m above sea level,inhabited by more than 3400 people,dating back to the Bronze Age,when folks primitive homestead,They are believed to be from tribes Canaanites,In the early nineteenth century s. M. King Beni age (one of the kings of Israel) he called the city (Chamr) over the hill village.Including the name of Samaria,The city witnessed periods of prosperity and periods of weakness so overwhelmed Assyrians in 805 s. m Astabahoha and again in s 721. M.,The Kingdom and Samaria,The era of Alexander the Great 331-107 s. m turned the city into a Greek city,that destroyed in 107 s. M. result of a revolution Greeks,In 63 M. The Romans built and named Sabastya,It is a Greek word meaning "distinguished"and synonymous with the meaning of the word in August Roman Emperor.

*** Wisdom and the city was inhabited Herodus ally of the Romans and the Jewish center for wisdom in light of the Romanian control,When admitted to the Roman Empire the Christian religion in the early fourth century AD has become a center for the Diocese,The city suffered an earthquake in 1330.and even demolished the Crusader occupation in the 18th century AD,the Greeks used as a chapel hill.Given the content of the village gates and fences and towers and street deliberately "street columns" and the huge temples and archaeological theaters,The archaeological mosque, the historic importance,The United rumination, it is the rule of Herod,attacks Israelis,and try to steal relics through brokers and dealers in antiquities.Says Mayor Sebastya (Mamoun Alkaid).The town now bear in mind the development of the tourism sector in the dying town.However, the fact that most archeological sites located in an area under full Israeli control (area C),believes it is not safe in the hands fiction and hope that the development of the region in light of this control.

*** Cemetery kings In describing this era.say (Jihad Shehada), the effects of Sabastiya inspector,The old city was built on an almost circular motion along the radius of the east-west one kilometer,The formal entrance surrounded Bbergin Darien Qatar each 14 m date back to the construction of Herod,It removed based on the rise of 11-8-meter.The fence-as-history says Shehada constructive back to the end of the second century and the beginning of the third century of the birth of a fence is supported by a large number of towers.And what most distinguishes Sebastya from other archeological sites in the world.Street is a street light pole or maimed,The section starts from the Western offer 12.5 m and takes decreasing whenever spread to the east,, extends for a distance of 800 m to end at the eastern section,according Shehada, who added, saying :"It was based on both sides of the street covered 600 pole rise 5.5 per m".In the midst of modern Sebastya is a great historical impact.a :kings buried in a cemetery one of the kings Romans,The appearance of the cemetery space to the greatness of architecture in that chapter of history.This is evidenced by the accuracy of making statues with inscriptions on the graves, which embodied the kings, guards and dark and children carrying Grapes of grapes,The bottom of the cemetery vaults and ventilation refers to the existence of two rooms where complex graves.  See More Photo Gallery

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