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Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya (Arabic: اللبّن الشرقية‎‎) is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, located 20 kilometers south of Nablus, in the Nablus Governorate. 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.
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From Murray page 330

From the ruins of Seilûn we descend through terraced corn-fields into the glen on the N.; and then turning to the l. follow the torrent-bed till it opens on a little fertile plain, and joins the main road about 1/4 m.N. of the ruined Khan el-Lubbân. This plain is about 1 m. in length, and is deeply imbedded among dark hills. It is drained by a narrow ravine which breaks through the western ridge, conveying a winter tributary to the 'Aujeh on the plain of Sharon. On the hill-side W. of the plain is the hamlet of Lubbân; it is still inhabited, but there is a venerable look about its old gray houses, and the sepulchral caves that dot the surrounding cliffs, which reminds us of the old city of LEBONAH, that in the days of Israel’s judges lay between Shiloh and Shechem. (Jud. xxi. 19.) It gives its name to the ruined khan, and to the plain and wady that drains it.


See Bædeker (1876) Route 14 page 327 (Lubban or Lebonah) 

See Bædeker (1898) Route 22 page 251 (El-Lubban)


 

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