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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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- Locality
- אפרת
- Region
- יהודה ושומרון
- Country
- الأراضي الفلسطينية
- Population
- 402
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Palestine
- Located in
- Bethlehem Governorate
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- al-Ma'sara, el-Dakhla
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- Name. Archaeology
- Establishment (1930)
- Post-1967
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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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