An-Naqura (Arabic: الناقورة, also spelled al-Nakura) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 10 kilometers northwest...

(Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe). He was also liaison officer in Naqura within the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon UNIFIL (United Nations...

Samaria) is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank. Built on lands confiscated from the neighboring Palestinian villages of An-Naqura and Deir Sharaf...

The Nablus Governorate (Arabic: محافظة نابلس Muḥāfaẓat Nāblus) is an administrative district of Palestine located in the Central Highlands of the West...

until it was destroyed by the Neo-Assyrian Empire around 720 BCE. It became an administrative center under Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian rule. During...

west, and Beit Dajan, Salim and Deir al Hatab to the north. Bayt Furik was an ancient Samaritan village. Old tombs have been found here. The place is mentioned...

Palestinian Territories during the First Intifada; the Israeli military maintains an active presence in the area (see Israeli occupation of the West Bank). Barbati...

in the area, Iqrit was linked to the coastal highway from Acre to Ras an-Naqura via a secondary road leading to Tarbikha. There were 339 people living...

rate in Ein Shibli was 70%. According to the PCBS, in 2007, Ein Shibli had an illiteracy rate of approximately 18.2% among its population, with 65% of the...

largest Palestinian refugee camps. The village's name is Balata, the name of an old Arab village, which was preserved by local residents. Its pseudonym, al-Balad...

Einabus to the west, and Asira al-Qibliya and Burin to the north. Huwara is an ancient site, and cisterns and rock-cut tombs have been found, together with...

an-Nassariya (Arabic: النصارية) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in the North central West Bank, located 14 kilometers East of Nablus. According...

The village was situated on a rocky hill near the road linking Ra's al-Naqura with Safad. Its houses were made of stone. A dirt path linked it to the...

for people of Nablus area; a total of 6,250 akçe. In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in...

520, all Muslims, while the total land area was 3,965 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1,107 dunams were for plantations...

part of the Jurat 'Amra district, south of Nablus. In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village with a population of 41 households in the...

population of 1,120, all Muslim, with 8,938 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 2,763 dunams were plantations...

travels in the region, as did Victor Guérin in 1870. In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in...

to the varying levels of limitation on Palestinian access, also served as an improvement to the road which allowed traffic to flow around, rather than...

the village rock-cut kokhim tombs. During the Second Temple period it was an important town (see Mishna, Ma'aser Sheni 5:2), named by Josephus (37–c. 100)...

of Western Palestine described Beit Dajan as: "A small village, evidently an ancient site, with rock-cut tombs and wells to the east. It stands at the...

for people of Nablus area; a total of 6,300 akçe. In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Wadi al-Sha'ir...

him by far Lebanon's most influential writer. Greater Lebanon from Ra's Naqura in the south to Nahr al-Kabir north of Tripoli, and from the coast to the...

had a population of 610 Muslims, with 6,258 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 3,309 dunams were plantations...

the Samaritan Ptolemayos family was excavated. A handful of glass beads and an oil lamp were also found in the excavation. A columbarium and Byzantine-period...

east, Beit Dajan and Deir al-Hatab to the south, Al-Badhan to the west, and An-Nassariya and Beit Hasan to the north. The total area of the village consists...

west, and Jamma'in and Urif to the south. Asira al-Qibliya is situated on an ancient site on low ground. Carved stones have been reused in village houses...

Governorate and a commercial and cultural centre of the State of Palestine, home to An-Najah National University, one of the largest Palestinian institutions of...

350 (Hebrew) ISBN 965-481-034-4 Shimon Dar & Ze'ev Safrai, Shomron Studies, An Anthology of Researches (Heb. title: מחקרי שומרון: קובץ מחקרים), Hakkibbutz...

Kiryat Luza al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya (Ammuriya) Madama Majdal Bani Fadil an-Naqura An-Nassariya Odala Osarin Qaryut (Jalud) Qusin Qusra Rujeib Salim Sarra...