Deir Ballut is a Palestinian

Palestinian people

The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

 town located in the Salfit Governorate

Salfit Governorate

The Salfit Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority. It is located in the northwestern West Bank, bordered by the governorates of Ramallah and al-Bireh to the south, Nablus to the east and Qalqilya in the north as well as, Israel to the west. Its district capital...

 in the northern West Bank

West Bank

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, 41 kilometres (25.5 mi) south west of Nablus

Nablus

Nablus is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 126,132. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.Founded by the...

. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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, it had a population of approximately 3,700 in mid-year 2006.

Arab

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 geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi

Yaqut al-Hamawi

Yāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī) was an Islamic biographer and geographer renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world. "al-Rumi" refers to his Greek descent; "al-Hamawi" means that he is from Hama, Syria, and ibn-Abdullah is a reference to his father's name, Abdullah...

 records in 1226, while Deir Ballut was under Mamluk

Mamluk

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 rule, "Deir al-Ballut was a village of district around ar-Ramla." Deir Ballut was the site of minor engagement between Turkish

Ottoman Empire

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 and British troops on the March 12, 1918.