Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya
village council in Nablus Governorate
Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya (Arabic: اللبّن الشرقية) is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, 20 kilometers south of Nablus, in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine. The town has a total land area of 12,075 dunams of which 200 dunams is built-up area. The village is just north of the historic Khan al-Lubban caravansary.
In 2012, the nearby village of Ammuriya was joined with Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya into one Municipal Council, also called Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya. The union has since been desolved
Location
Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya is bordered by Qaryut and As Sawiya to the east, As Sawiya, Iskaka and Salfit to the north, Khirbet Qeis to the west, and 'Abwein and Sinjil to the south.
History
Iron Age through Abbasid period
Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya has been identified with biblical Lebonah.
Pottery and sherds from Iron Age II, Hellenistic, Hellenistic/Roman and Byzantine period have been found, as have sherds from the Umayyad/ Abbasid periods.
Crusaders, Ayyubids, and Mamluks
The village was known as "Lubanum" to the Crusaders, and sherds from the Crusader/Ayyubid period have also been found there.
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Makhzumi al-Lubanni (d. 1260), a qadi (Islamic judge) in Baalbek, was born in the village in AH 593/1196 CE. In the 1320s, it was marked as Casale Lepna on the map of Marino Sanuto.
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