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Sarta Sarta ( ) is a Palestinian town located 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 . Location . Sarta is bordered by Haris to the east , Bruqin to the south , Biddya to the west , and Qarawat Bani Hassan to the north . History . Sarta is situated 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 . Ottoman era . 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 . They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3 % on agricultural products , including wheat , barley , summer crops , olive trees , goats and beehives ; a total of 1,500 akçe . In 1838 it was noted as a village Serata , part of the Jurat Merda district , south of Nablus . French explorer Victor Guérin travelled through the village in 1870 , and found it to have around 40 houses , some better built than in the average village . The stones of the houses were alternately red and white . Several ancient cisterns dug into the rock provided water for the residents . In 1882 , the Palestine Exploration Funds Survey of Western Palestine described Serta as a small stone village . British Mandate era . In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities , Sarta had a population of 275 Muslims and 1 Jew , increasing in the 1931 census to 317 , all Muslim , in a total of 76 houses . In the 1945 statistics the population was 420 , all Muslims , while the total land area was 5,584 dunams , according to an official land and population survey . Of this , 1,858 were used for plantations and irrigable land , 766 for cereals , while 23 dunams were classified as built-up areas . Jordanian era . In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements , Sarta came under Jordanian rule . In 1961 , the population was 740 . Post-1967 . Since the Six-Day War in 1967 , Sarta has been under Israeli occupation . After the 1995 accords , 16.8 % of the village land is defined as Area B , while the remainder 83.2 % is Area C . Israel has confiscated 353 dunams of village land for the establishment of the Israeli settlement of Barkan . External links . - Welcome To Sarta - Survey of Western Palestine , Map 14 : IAA , Wikimedia commons - Sarta Village ( including ‘Izbat Abu Adam Locality ) ( Fact Sheet ) Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem ( ARIJ ) - Sarta Village Profile ( including ‘Izbat Abu Adam Locality ) , ARIJ - Sarta aerial photo , ARIJ - Development Priorities and Needs in Sarta , ARIJ - Sarta Village Profile - Land Confiscation , Tree Burning and Uprooting Campaigns against the Village of Sarta , 23 September , 2004 , POICA - Israeli Occupation Forces Embark on the Expansion of Burkan Industrial Compound , 3 September 2008 , POICA - Palestinian land bulldozed for colonial expansion in Sarta village 08 , July , 2009 , POICA - Extension of Take Over lands in Bruqin , Sarta , and Haris villages 02 , January , 2012 , POICA - A new Israeli military order to grant more security for the settlement of Barqan , 25 February , 2012 , POICA - Barkan colony map