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In A. D. 6, Shechem was annexed to the Roman Province of Syria.

Some of its inhabitants were of the number of the " Samaritans " who believed in Jesus when he tarried two days in the neighborhood, and the city must have been visited by the Apostles on their way from Samaria to Jerusalem ( Acts 8: 25 ).

Of the Samaritans of Sichem not a few rose up in arms on Mt.

Garizim at the time of the Galilean rebellion ( A. D. 67 ); the city was very likely destroyed on that occasion by Cerealis.

In A. D. 72, a new city, Flavia Neapolis, was built by Vespasian a 2 kilometers to the west of the old one.

This city's name was eventually corrupted to the modern Nablus.