Sarta

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Sarta (Arabic: سرطه) is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 22 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 3,382 in 2017. Sarta is bordered by Haris to the east, Bruqin to the south, Biddya to the west, and Qarawat Bani Hassan to the north. Sarta is on an ancient site, where cisterns and columbariums carved into rock have been found. Sherds from Iron Age II and Persian eras have been found, but were possibly washed down from a nearby higher Tell. Sherds from Byzantine/Early Umayyad and Crusader/Ayyubid occupations can be suggested according to the finds of sherds at Sarta, and according to finds at the site of the nearby sheikh tomb. Yakut mentions "Suratah", as being in "a village in Jabal Nabulus". It has been suggested that this was Sarta. The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 6 households, all Muslim.