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Al-Masara
Sign in to saveAl-Masara (, pronounced ''al-Ma'sara''; translation: "the press") is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, 6.2 km southwest of Bethlehem, part of the Bethlehem Governorate. It is surrounded by a number of smaller Palestinian villages, including Khallet al-Haddad to the east. The population was 1,085 in the 2017 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
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Within Vinony's link graph, Al-Masara is referenced by 55 other articles, and connects out to Jannatah, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem and Arabic.
Vinony files it under Bethlehem Governorate, Populated places established in 1930 and Villages in the West Bank.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- אפרת
- Region
- יהודה ושומרון
- Country
- الأراضي الفلسطينية
- Population
- 402
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Palestine
- Located in
- Bethlehem Governorate
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- Al Ma'asara
- different from
- al-Ma'sara, el-Dakhla
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Name. Archaeology
- Establishment (1930)
- Post-1967
- Institutions
- Economy
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Al-Masara (, pronounced ''al-Ma'sara''; translation: "the press") is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, 6.2 km southwest of Bethlehem, part of the Bethlehem Governorate. It is surrounded by a number of smaller Palestinian villages, including Khallet al-Haddad to the east. The population was 1,085 in the 2017 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
==History== ===Name. Archaeology=== Its name, which translates as "the press", derives from the Byzantine Empire-era olive press still located in al-Ma'sara. In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) noted "heaps of stones and cisterns" at Khurbet Marsia.
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