Nakoura (Arabic: الناقورة‎‎, Enn Nâqoura, Naqoura, An Nāqūrah) is a small city in the province of South Lebanon. Since March 23, 1978, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon has been based here.

Name
According to the orientalist E. G. Palmer, the name of the city is translated as “horn” or “trumpet”. Most likely, it arose as a result of confusion: in Arabic, Sur or Tir means “horn” or “pipe”, and Ras Sur means “Cape Sur”. The name of the city was formed from the distorted Ras Sur. The word is also associated with the concept of “hollow”, “drill”.

History
In 1875, during the late Ottoman period, the archaeologist Victor Guérin described it thus:
The village is located on a hill through which flows a stream called Ain Nakurah, which irrigates thickets of palms, figs and olive trees. There are no more than 400 inhabitants. The houses are modern, but some materials, judging by the size and preservation, have remained from ancient times. Surely, on the site of the modern settlement, there was an older one, with a similar, if not identical name.
In 1881, the Survey of Western Palestine of the Palestine Research Foundation described him thus:
The stone-built village of about 250 Muslims is nestled among low hills on the coast. Olive groves, palm trees, pomegranate and fig trees, arable land. On the east side it is surrounded by shrubs. Two full-flowing streams.