An-Naqura

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.An-Naqura (Arabic: الناقورة, also spelled al-Nakura) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 10 kilometers northwest of Nablus and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron.

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the village had a population of 1,545 in 2007 and 1,786 in 2017.

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

[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.