An-Naqura

An Naqura is located 7.57 km northwest of Nablus. It is bordered by Zawata to the east, Ijnisinya to the east and north, Sabastiya to the north, Deir Sharaf to the west and south, and Beit Iba to the south.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051248/http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Annaqura_vp_en.pdf An Naqura Village profile], ARIJ, p. 4

Pottery sherds from the Early Bronze I, Iron Age II, late Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and Medieval eras have been found here.Zertal, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC&pg=PA478 478]

It has been suggested that An-Naqura was the village named Aqbara or Aquira, in the 1596 Ottoman tax records. It had 23 households and 5 bachelors, all Muslim.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 127; cited in Zertal, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC&pg=PA478 478]

In 1667, Anthimus mentions a Christian population in this village, though it had no church.Ellenblum, 2003, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=riHMZiH_Te4C&pg=PA248 248]

In 1838 Robinson noted the village as en-Nakurah in the Wady esh-Sha'ir district, west of Nablus.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/129/mode/1up 129]Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p.[https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n155/mode/1up 138]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it as a village on a hill, with 300 inhabitants, where ancient stones were used in the house-walls.Guérin, 1875, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr04gugoog#page/n211/mode/1up 186]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Wadi al-Sha'ir.{{Cite book |last=Grossman |first=David |title=Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine |publisher=Magnes Press |year=2004 |location=Jerusalem |pages=253}}

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described En Nakurah: "A small stone village on the slope of the hill. It has olives, which appear to grow half wild, and a spring

of good water, apparently perennial, in the valley to the north, near which are vegetable gardens. A small Mukam stands above the village, on the south."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/160/mode/1up 160]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nakura had a population of 233 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n26/mode/1up 24] increasing in the 1931 census to 247, still all Muslims, in a total of 69 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 63]

In the 1945 statistics En Naqura had a population of 350 MuslimsGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p19.jpg 19] and a total of 5,507 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Nablus/Page-060.jpg 60] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906172731/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Nablus/Page-060.jpg |date=2018-09-06 }} Of this, 591 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,444 were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Nablus/Page-107.jpg 107] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005011957/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Nablus/Page-107.jpg |date=2013-10-05 }} while 27 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Nablus/Page-157.jpg 157] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005011223/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Nablus/Page-157.jpg |date=2013-10-05 }}

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, An-Naqura came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 487 inhabitants.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p26.pdf 26]

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, An-Naqura has been held under Israeli occupation. A census recorded by the Israeli Civil Administration that same year recorded 610 persons, of whom 37 were refugees from Israel.Perlmann, [http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/1967_census/vol_1_tab_2.pdf Vol 1, Tab 2: Naqura].

After the 1995 accords, 14% of village land was classified as Area A, 51% was classified as Area B, while the remaining 35% was classified as Area C. Israel has “confiscated” 680 dunums of village land for the Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051248/http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Annaqura_vp_en.pdf An Naqura Village profile], ARIJ, p. 15

Some of an-Naqura's inhabitants have origins in Burqa and a few nearby khirbets.Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 352

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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/al_Naqura_1078/index.html Welcome To al-Naqura]
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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031201/http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/needsfordevelopment/An%20Naqura_Needs_EN.pdf Development Priorities and Needs in An Naqura], ARIJ

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