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Fasayil or Fasa'il (Arabic: فصايل), ancient Phasaelis, is a Palestinian village in the northeastern West Bank, a part of the Jericho Governorate, located 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of Jericho and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Nablus. The closest Palestinian locality is Duma to the west. The village is located 2 km south of the Israeli settlement of Petza'el. According to the 2017 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 1,637.
During the Roman period, Herod the Great, client king of Judaea, established a new city in the Jordan Valley north of Jericho, which he named Phasaelis (Ancient Greek: Φασαηλίς, Phasaēlís), in dedication to his elder brother Phasael. The remains of Phasaelis were identified in the 19th century with the ruins field called by local Arabs Khirbet Fasayil, with a tell (mound) called Tell Fasayil possibly corresponding to a Byzantine monastery.
Jewish historian and commander in the First Jewish-Roman War, Flavius Josephus, writes about the establishment of Phasaelis south of Archelais and describes it as part of a toparchy ruled by Herod's sister, Salome I. The city is also found on the 6th-century Madaba Map, surrounded by date palms.
The tomb of an anchorite named Peter was found in the village in 1949. The ruins of a monastery dedicated to Saint Cyriacus, a commemorated monk who died in 556, is also located in Fasayil. Among the ruins on the site is a large square building, of which in modern times only the outline was visible, because it was almost completely buried. At the mouth of the nearby Wadi al-Fasayil, at a little mound, there is a birkeh ("pool") and many unexcavated remains of walls. The site is called Tell Sheikh ad-Diab after the tomb of a Muslim holy man by this name, still in good condition.
A stone found at Fasayil commemorates a building project there dedicated to Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun. It must have been started either during his rule, or the rule of his son, Abu 'l-Asakir Jaysh ibn Khumarawayh, that is between 884 and 896 CE.
It was mentioned by a monk named Brocardus in the 13th century as being a small village called Pheselch and in the 14th century by Marino Sanuto as being a small village by the name of Fasaelis.
Victor Guérin visited in 1870, and found the place in ruins. In 1874, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine expedition visited and described the extensive ruins there.
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Fasayil has been under Israeli occupation.
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Fasayil
Fasayil or Fasa'il (Arabic: فصايل), ancient Phasaelis, is a Palestinian village in the northeastern West Bank, a part of the Jericho Governorate, located 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of Jericho and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Nablus. The closest Palestinian locality is Duma to the west. The village is located 2 km south of the Israeli settlement of Petza'el. According to the 2017 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 1,637.
During the Roman period, Herod the Great, client king of Judaea, established a new city in the Jordan Valley north of Jericho, which he named Phasaelis (Ancient Greek: Φασαηλίς, Phasaēlís), in dedication to his elder brother Phasael. The remains of Phasaelis were identified in the 19th century with the ruins field called by local Arabs Khirbet Fasayil, with a tell (mound) called Tell Fasayil possibly corresponding to a Byzantine monastery.
Jewish historian and commander in the First Jewish-Roman War, Flavius Josephus, writes about the establishment of Phasaelis south of Archelais and describes it as part of a toparchy ruled by Herod's sister, Salome I. The city is also found on the 6th-century Madaba Map, surrounded by date palms.
The tomb of an anchorite named Peter was found in the village in 1949. The ruins of a monastery dedicated to Saint Cyriacus, a commemorated monk who died in 556, is also located in Fasayil. Among the ruins on the site is a large square building, of which in modern times only the outline was visible, because it was almost completely buried. At the mouth of the nearby Wadi al-Fasayil, at a little mound, there is a birkeh ("pool") and many unexcavated remains of walls. The site is called Tell Sheikh ad-Diab after the tomb of a Muslim holy man by this name, still in good condition.
A stone found at Fasayil commemorates a building project there dedicated to Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun. It must have been started either during his rule, or the rule of his son, Abu 'l-Asakir Jaysh ibn Khumarawayh, that is between 884 and 896 CE.
It was mentioned by a monk named Brocardus in the 13th century as being a small village called Pheselch and in the 14th century by Marino Sanuto as being a small village by the name of Fasaelis.
Victor Guérin visited in 1870, and found the place in ruins. In 1874, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine expedition visited and described the extensive ruins there.
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Fasayil has been under Israeli occupation.
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