History
Byzantine pottery has been found. The village was known as "Lubanum" to the Crusaders.
Under the name "Lubban as-Sawi", the village appeared in 1596 Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 85 Muslim households. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, and goats or beehives.
French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1863, and found it to be in a poor state, but with beautiful old elements as part of the houses. The population was estimated to be 300.
In the 1882 "Survey of Western Palestine", the village was described as being perched on a terrace on the hill, with ancient tombs close by.
In a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya (called: Lubban Sharqi) had a population of 356, all Muslims. At the time of the 1931 census, al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya had 116 occupied houses and a population of 474 Muslims and one Christian.
In 1945 Lubban Sharqiya had a population of 620, all Arabs, with 12,545 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 2,424 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 5,605 used for cereals, while 34 dunams were built-up land.
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