An-Naqura

Coordinates: 32°15′56″N 35°12′05″E / 32.26556°N 35.20139°E / 32.26556; 35.20139
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An Naqura
Village council
 • Head of MunicipalityMuhammad Hashish
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total1,786
Name meaningEn Nakurah: the horn or trumpet[2]

An-Naqura (

village council headed by Muhammad Hashish.[4]

Location

An Naqura is located 7.57 km northwest of

Sabastiya to the north, Deir Sharaf to the west and south, and Beit Iba to the south.[5]

History

Pottery

Muslim and Medieval eras have been found here.[6]

Ottoman era

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.[7]

In 1667, Anthimus mentions a Christian population in this village, though it had no church.[8]

In 1838 Robinson noted the village as en-Nakurah in the Wady esh-Sha'ir district, west of Nablus.[9][10]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it as a village on a hill, with 300 inhabitants, where ancient stones were used in the house-walls.[11]

In 1870/1871 (1288

AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Wadi al-Sha'ir.[12]

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."[13]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nakura had a population of 233 Muslims,[14] increasing in the 1931 census to 247, still all Muslims, in a total of 69 houses.[15]

In the 1945 statistics En Naqura had a population of 350 Muslims[16] and a total of 5,507 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[17] Of this, 591 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,444 were used for cereals,[18] while 27 dunams were built-up land.[19]

Jordanian era

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.[20]

Post-1967

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.[21]

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.[22]

Demography

Local origins

Some of an-Naqura's inhabitants have origins in Burqa and a few nearby khirbets.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 188
  3. ^ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 108.
  4. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center
    (JMCC).
  5. ^ An Naqura Village profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  6. ^ Zertal, 2004, p. 478
  7. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 127; cited in Zertal, 2004, p. 478
  8. ^ Ellenblum, 2003, p. 248
  9. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 129
  10. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p.138
  11. ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 186
  12. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 253.
  13. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 160
  14. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
  15. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 63
  16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  17. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60 Archived 2018-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 107 Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 157 Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  21. ^ Perlmann, Vol 1, Tab 2: Naqura.
  22. ^ An Naqura Village profile, ARIJ, p. 15
  23. ^ 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

Bibliography

External links
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