sentences:  The Negev Naming Committee chose to Hebraize the name as Mamshit (ממשית), with one committee member stating that it is "impossible to leave the name Mampsis because it's a foreign name"; the committee concluded that Mamshit was the original Hebrew name, which had been distorted by the Greeks.Mampsis was founded in the 1st century BC as trade post between Petra and Gaza.Also based on agriculture, it continued to develop over time.