This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Far'ata (Arabic: فرعتا) was a Palestinian village in the Qalqilya Governorate in the Western area of the West Bank, located 16 kilometers Southwest of Nablus.
They are bordered by Tell to the east, Deir Istiya to the south, Jinsafut, Al Funduq and Hajjah to the west, and Kafr Qaddum and Jit to the north.
[5] Far'ata was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as Fara'ta, being in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus.
[7] In 1870 the French explorer Victor Guérin visited Far'ata, which he described having "a very small number" of people, with some cisterns and remains of a stone sarcophagus as remnants of former history.
[9] In the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) (1882), Far'ata was described as a "small village of ancient appearance, standing on a [..] mound, with a rock-cut tomb to the south, and a sacred Mukam to the east.