’Azmut () is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located five kilometers northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 2,724 inhabitants in mid-2006. Location ‘Azmut is located east of Nablus. It is bordered by Deir al Hatab and Al ‘Aqrabaniya to the east, Al Bahdan to the north, ‘Asira ash Shamaliya and Nablus to the west, and Deir al Hatab to the south. History One pottery sherd has been found from each of the Hellenistic and early Roman eras. Much more pottery has been found from the late Roman and Byzantine eras. Ottoman era Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with the rest of Palestine, in 1596 the village appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 18 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or syrup - a total of 4,000 akçe. In 1838, Edward Robinson noted Azmut as a village in the same area as Salim and Deir al-Hatab. All were Muslim villages, part of the El-Beitawy district, east of Nablus. In 1870, Victor Guérin visited, after visiting Deir al-Hatab. About Azmut, he noted that it was: "a small village a little less in ruin the previous one. It must have succeeded also to an ancient locality, as is proved by a number of cisterns cut out from the rock, most of them without water, but one of which, among others, still serves the needs of the inhabitants. Two oualys are devoted to two different sheikhs." In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Azmut as a "small village, standing on the slope of the hill, with cliffs on the west." British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Azmut had a population of 283 Muslims, increasing at the time of the 1931 census to 307, still all Muslim, in 70 houses. In the 1945 statistics, Azmut had a population of 410, all Muslims, with 10,748 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 343 dunams were plantations and irrigable land,