An-Nazla al-Gharbiya ( ar, النزله الغربيه) is a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

village in the

Tulkarm Governorate The Tulkarm Governorate ( ar, محافظة طولكرم, Muḥāfaẓat Ṭūlkarm) is an administrative district and one of 16 Governorates of Palestine located in the north-western West Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometres ...

in the eastern

West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

, located 16 kilometers North of

Tulkarm Tulkarm, Tulkarem or Tull Keram ( ar, طولكرم, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located in the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian cities o ...

History

Pottery remains from the

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era have been found here.Zertal, 2016, p
355
/ref> Southwest of the village, on the top of hill, is the tomb of ''Sheikh Khalil''. It is constructed of old, reused stones, and pottery sherds from the

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

era have been found here. Pottery from the early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here.

Ottoman era

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the ''

nahiya A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

'' (sub-district) of al-Sha'rawiyya al-Sharqiyya. In 1882, the PEF's ''

Survey of Western Palestine The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after the ...

'' described An-Nazla al-Gharbiya, then called ''Nuzlet et Tinat'': "A little

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

with fig trees, and a

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to the west on low ground. It has caves opposite to it on the south."

British Mandate era

In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nazla al Gharbiya had a population of 64 Muslims, in a total of 13 houses.Mills, 1932, p
70
/ref> In the 1945 statistics the population of ''Nazla el Gharbiya'' was 100 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
21
/ref> with 2,320 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 182 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 556 were used for cereals, while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land. File:Nazla 1942.jpg, an-Nazla al-Gharbiya 1942 1:20,000 File:Qaffin 1945.jpg, an-Nazla al-Gharbiya 1945 1:250,000

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the

1949 Armistice Agreements The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

ian rule. In 1961, the population of ''Nazla Gharbiya'' was 187.

Post 1967

After the

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...

in 1967, An-Nazla al-Gharbiya has been under

Israeli occupation Israeli-occupied territories are the lands that were captured and occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967. While the term is currently applied to the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights, it has also been used to refer to a ...

. According to the

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; ar, الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني) is the official statistical institution of the State of Palestine. Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures ...

, an-Nazla al-Gharbiya had a population of approximately 1,110 inhabitants in 2017. 6.1% of the population of an-Nazla al-Gharbiya were refugees in 1997. The healthcare facilities for the surrounding villages are based in Baqa ash-Sharqiyya, where the facilities are designated as

MOH Moh (Punjabi: ਮੋਹ ''mōha''; Sanskrit: ''muh'': is a word in Punjabi and Sanskrit. Definition “to become stupefied, to be bewildered or perplexed, to err, to be mistaken”. It stands in ancient texts for perplexity or confusion and ...

level 3.Health care Facilities Tulkarm Governorate
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References

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External links

*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11:
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