Toura ( ar, طورا) is a small town in the

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 South

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 9 kilometres northeast of Tyre.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name ''Torah'' comes from "flowing water".

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 ...

found here 450

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 ...

. He further noted that the village occupied "the summit of a hill entirely covered with fig-trees." In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village of mud and stone, situated on the top of a hill, and surrounded by figs, olives, and arable land. There are a spring and cisterns. It contains about 200

."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p
51
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Localiban *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 1
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{{Tyre District Populated places in Tyre District Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon