Editing Samaria (section)

==== Ottoman Period ====
During the [[Ottoman period|Ottoman Period]], the northern part of Samaria belonged to the
[[Turabay dynasty|Turabay]] Emirate (1517–1683), which encompassed also the [[Jezreel Valley]], [[Haifa]], [[Jenin]], [[Beit She'an Valley]], northern [[Jabal Nablus]], [[Manasseh Hills|Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe]], and the northern part of the [[Sharon plain]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=al-Bakhīt |first1=Muḥammad ʻAdnān |last2=al-Ḥamūd |first2=Nūfān Rajā |title=Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/28579982 |access-date=15 May 2023 |website=www.worldcat.org |publisher=Jordanian University |pages=1–35 |language=en |publication-place=Amman |publication-date=1989}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marom |first=Roy |title=Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine |url=https://www.academia.edu/101515579 |journal=Levant |year=2023 |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=218–241 |doi=10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484 |s2cid=258602184 |access-date=2023-05-10 |archive-date=2023-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718032959/https://www.academia.edu/101515579 |url-status=live }}</ref> The areas south of Jenin, including [[Nablus]] itself and its hinterland up to the [[Yarkon River]], formed a separate district called the District of Nablus.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Doumani |first=Beshara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K6QwDwAAQBAJ |title=Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900 |date=12 October 1995 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-20370-9 |language=en |access-date=10 May 2023 |archive-date=10 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510152920/https://books.google.com/books?id=K6QwDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>