Halloussiyeh ( ar, حلوسية) is a village in
Tyre District
The Tyre District is a district in the South Governorate of Lebanon.
History Ancient history
Founded at the start of the third millennium BC, Tyre originally consisted of a mainland settlement and a modest island city that lay a short distance o ...
in Southern
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...
, located just south of the
Litani river
The Litani River ( ar, نهر الليطاني, Nahr al-Līṭānī), the classical Leontes ( grc-gre, Λέοντες, Léontes, lions), is an important water resource in southern Lebanon. The river rises in the fertile Beqaa Valley, west of B ...
.
Name
According to
E. H. Palmer, the name could possibly come from the word for "abundant herbage".
History
In 1875,
Victor Guérin
Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 Septembe 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included Greece, Asia Min ...
noted: "This village is divided into two quarters, the lower of which is called Hallusiyeh et Thata, and the upper Hallusiyeh el Foka. The latter occupies the summit of a high hill. The houses of both quarters are rudely built: they may contain about 500
Metawileh
Lebanese Shia Muslims ( ar, المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيين), historically known as ''matāwila'' ( ar, متاولة, plural of ''mutawālin'' ebanese pronounced as ''metouali'' refers to Lebanese people who are adherents ...
."
In 1881, the
PEF's
''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, divided into two quarters, east and west, with
Moslem holy place." They further noted: "The only tradition which connects this village with the past is that a
wely
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consecrated to Neby Mohammed is said to have succeeded an ancient church."
Modern era
In January 1984 Israel
soldiers detained the local
Imam and five young men from the village. They then used a bulldozer to demolish the Imam’s house.
On 24 July 2006, during the
2006 Lebanon War, 11 civilians, aged 6 to 86 years of age, were killed by Israeli air-strikes. There were no
Hezbollah fighters in the village at the time.
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References
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External links
Localiban
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2:
IAAWikimedia commons
{{Tyre District
Populated places in Tyre District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon