Vespasian establishes a new pagan city, Flavia Neapolis ("new city of the emperor Flavius"), as a reward for the loyalty of the Greeks in the revolt.

Founded in 72 over an older Samaritan village, Mabartha ("the passage"), and located between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, the new city lies two kilometers (1.2 mi) west of the Biblical city of Shechem, which has been destroyed by the Romans this same year during the war.

Insofar as the hilly topography of the site allows, the city is built on a Roman grid plan and settled with veterans who have fought in the victorious legions and other foreign colonists.

Holy places at the site of the city's founding include Joseph's Tomb and Jacob's Well.

Due to the city's strategic geographic position and the abundance of water from nearby springs, Neapolis will prosper, accumulating extensive territory, including the former Judean toparchy of Acraba.

Known today as Nablus, the city is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.

Emperor Marcian refuses to become entangled in war with the Vandals in Africa, but minor troubles with nomadic peoples in Syria and along the frontier of southern Egypt have occurred during his reign, including a revolt by the Samaritans.

Unable to annihilate the Crusaders, Mawdud watches them with his main army while sending raiding columns to ravage the countryside and sack the town of Nablus.

In this, Mawdud anticipates the strategy of Saladin in two later campaigns that will be marked by the Battle of Belvoir Castle (1182) and the Battle of Al-Fule (1183).

As in these campaigns, the Frankish field army can oppose the main Muslim army, but it cannot stop raiding forces from doing great damage to crops and towns.

While the Turkish raiders roam freely through Crusader lands, the local Muslim farmers enter into friendly relations with them.

This deeply troubles the Frankish land magnates, who ultimately depend upon rents from cultivators of the soil.

Baldwin marries Adelaide del Vasto in 1113; he had abandoned his Armenian wife Arda in 1108, on the pretext that she had been unfaithful, or, according to Guibert of Nogent, because she had been raped by pirates on the way to Jerusalem.

It is more likely however that she was simply politically useless in Jerusalem, which has no Armenian population.

Under the marriage agreement, if Baldwin and Adelaide have no children, the heir to the kingdom will be Roger II of Sicily, Adelaide's son by her first husband Roger I. Technically the marriage to Adelaide is bigamous because Arda is still alive in a monastery in Jerusalem, and it will later cause many problems both for Baldwin and Patriarch Arnulf, who has sanctioned it.

The Council of Nablus, a council of ecclesiastic and secular lords in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, held on January 16, 1120, establishes the first written laws for the kingdom.

Convened by Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, it establishes twenty-five canons dealing with both religious and secular affairs.

It is not quite a church council, but not quite a meeting of the royal court.

The resulting agreement between the patriarch and the king is a concordat, similar to the Concordat of Worms that will be held two years later.

The canons begin with the reasons for calling the council: Jerusalem has been plagued with locusts and mice for the past four years, and the Crusader states in general are suffering from repeated attacks from the Muslims.

It is believed that the sins of the people need to be corrected before Jerusalem can prosper.

Raymond of Tripoli has allied with the Muslim sultan Saladin against Guy.

Guy, hoping to establish a truce  in April 1187 sends an embassy to Raymond, led by Balian of Ibelin, Gerard de Ridefort, master of the Knights Templar; Roger des Moulins, master of the Knights Hospitaller; Reginald of Sidon, and Archbishop Joscius.

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A new internal conflict in Turkestan has forced Hulagu to stop the Mongol invasion before it reaches Egypt; he has departed with the bulk of his forces, leaving only about ten thousand Mongol horsemen in Syria under Kitbuqa to occupy the conquered territory, including Nablus and Gaza in the south, as well as the fortress of Ajlun, east of River Jordan.

When the news of the sack of Aleppo reached an-Nasir Yusuf, he and his army had fled towards Gaza on January 31, stopping at Nablus for several days and leaving a contingent which may have been intended as a rearguard.

After the capture of Damascus, some of the Mongol troops raid Palestine, and fight with an-Nasir's troops in the olive groves of Nablus, defeating the entire force.

...Nablus are part of the province of Beirut, whereas ...

The Palestinian Arabs share in a general Arab renaissance in the last years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth.

Palestinians find opportunities in the service of the Ottoman Empire, and Palestinian deputies ...