The town's many enormous, elaborate mansions has, according to the BBC led it to be called the Miami of the West Bank.
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In 1970 the village became part of the newly established municipality of al-Sawda along with the mostly Alawite villages of Maten al-Sahel, Mazra'a, Mazra'a Shamamis, Bayt Jadid, the Sunni Muslim village of Zamrin, the Christian villages of al-Sawda and Bashtar, and the Ismaili village of Awaru.
In 1255 they also sold the Hospitallers everything they owned in Acre as well as the casalia of Chasteillon and Rout.