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Tyre District
The Tyre District is a district in the South Governorate of Lebanon. Municipalities The following 72 municipalities are all located in the Tyre District: * Al-Aabbassiyah * Aaitit * Aalma ash-Shaab * Ain Abu Aabdallah * Ain az-Zarqa * Ain Baal * Arzoun * Baflay * Barish * Al-Basatin * Batoulay * Al-Bayyad * Al-Bazouriyah * Bedias * Bestiyat * Al-Burghuliyah * Burj ash-Shamali * Burj Rahal * Al-Buss * Al-Bustan * Debaal * Deir Aames * Deir Kifa * Deir Qanoun an-Naher * Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain * Derdghaya * Ad-Duhairah * Al-Halloussiyah * Al-Hamairi * Hannaouiyah * Al-Hanniye * Jannata * Jebal al-Bottom * Al-Jibbain * Jwaya * Al-Knaissah * Maarakah * Maaroub * Mahrouna * Al-Majadel * Majdal Zoun * Malikiyat as-Sahel * Al-Mansouri * Marwahin * Mazraat Meshref * An-Naffakhiyah * An-Naqoura * Qana * Al-Qlailah * Ar-Ramadiyah * Ar-Rashidiyah * Reshknanay * As-Sammaaiyah * Seddiqin * Selaa * Ash-Shaaitiyah * Shabriha * Shamaa * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governorates Of Lebanon
Lebanon is divided into nine governorates (Arabic: ). Each governorate is headed by a governor (Arabic: ). All of the governorates except for Beirut Governorate, Beirut and Akkar Governorate, Akkar are divided into districts of Lebanon, districts, which are further subdivided into list of municipalities of Lebanon, municipalities. The newest governorate is Keserwan-Jbeil, which was gazetted on 7 September 2017 but whose first governor, Pauline Deeb, was not appointed until 2020. Implementation of the next most recently created governorates, Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel, also remains ongoing since the appointment of their first governors in 2014. See also * Politics of Lebanon References External links Governorates of Lebanon, Administrative divisions in Asia, Lebanon 1 First-level administrative divisions by country, Governorates, Lebanon Lists of subdivisions of Lebanon, Governorates Subdivisions of Lebanon {{Lebanon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Bayyad
Al-Bayyad () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. Etymology E. H. Palmer wrote that the name means "the white spot". History In 1881, during the late Ottoman era, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, with many ruined houses . containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on hill-top, surrounded by fig-trees, olives, and arable land ; water supplied from cisterns." They further noted: "There are many ruined houses at this village, and a lintel with three crosses upon it, the centre being the largest. Foundations of rough-hewn stones of some building." Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 99.58% of registered voters in Al-Bayyad. 99.17% of the voters were Shiite Muslims Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deir Qanoun Ras Al-Ain
Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain () (Lit. Fountain-head; The head of the Spring) is a place abounding with immense fountains, with reservoirs and aqueducts south of Tyre, and ca. south of Beirut, in the South Governorate (Liban-Sud), in the municipality of Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain. The place lies in a very green and fertile plain, about one kilometer from the sea coast. It is a popular tourist destination, owing to its artesian wells fed by underground springs and collected in stone reservoirs that have been maintained through the ages. History Ras al-Ain has been the main source of water for ancient Tyre since Phoenician days. One of the reservoirs fed the arched aqueducts of the Roman period, and which once stretched all the way to Tyre. Remains of these aqueducts, exhibiting strong and excellent masonry, with round arches and a continuous cornice above them, can still be seen today, and a short stretch of the original aqueduct is still used today in Tyre's present-day waterworks. A refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deir Qanoun An-Naher
Deir Qanoun an-Naher () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. Etymology According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, Deir Kânûn meant: the convent of the rule (canon). History In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted here a decorated Sarcophagus. In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by 400 Metualis. He further noted: "Here I saw an ancient rock-cut basin, many cut-stones built up in private houses or forming the enclosure of gardens and cisterns, and, on the surface of a block lying on the ground, figures carved, to the number of five, each in a different frame. Unfortunately they are much mutilated by time and rough usage. The best preserved has the head surmounted by the high Egyptian coiffure known under the name of pschent, and holds in one hand a sort of curved stick." In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on the top of a hill, surro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deir Kifa
Deir Kifa () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, South Governorate, Governorate of South Lebanon. Etymology Edward Henry Palmer, E. H. Palmer wrote in 1881 that it meant ''The convent of Kifa''. p.n. Kifa is a Syriac Aramaic word that means rock in Arabic and Peter in Greek. It is the title of Saint Simon, son of Jonah, a disciple of Jesus Christ. Location Deir Kifa is located in the South Governorate, Tyre District. It is 540 m above sea level and 107 kilometers to the southwest of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, or about two hours, and 16 km from the center of its district Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre. Its population is about five thousand people; about a thousand live in the village, while the rest are distributed in expatriate countries such as Brazil, the United States, Germany, and some Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Persian Gulf countries. A large number of her sons settled in the capital, Beirut, in order to search for ways of life and work that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deir Aames
Deir Aames () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. Etymology According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the convent of Amis." History In 1243, during the Crusader era, Deir Aames (called ''Derreme'', or ''Dairrhamos'') belonged to Venice. Ottoman era In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted: "'At Deir Amis there is a large basin of great stones, and a portion of wall which seems of Crusading times. At the church there is a drawing like the stone of Aitit. As the stone of Deir Amis is certainly Christian, so must also be that of Aitit." In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by Metuali families. He further noted: "numerous ruined houses, a fragment of a column in the interior of a small mosque, cut stones scattered over the ground, cisterns cut in the rock, a tank partly built and partly rock-cut. On an ancient lintel is carved a double cross in a circle." In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Pales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debaal
Debaal () or Deb’aal is a municipality located at the Tyre District, in the South Governorate, Lebanon. It is located north of Jwaya and south of Baflay, 22 km east of Tyre. History In 1875, Victor Guérin visited, and wrote that the village, inhabited by Metawileh, sits atop a hill surrounded with terraces bearing olive, fig, and tobacco crops. Guérin compared Debaal's significance unfavorably to that of Maarakeh, a village he visited earlier. In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone; about 100 Metawileh; situated on a hill, surrounded by fig-trees, olives, and arable land; water supply from spring and cisterns." Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 99.63% of registered voters in Debaal. 98.50% of the voters were Shiite Muslims. Archaeology In 1875, Victor Guérin took note of an adjacent ancient necropolis, which he described as "still fairly well-preserved". Guérin examined seven funerary vaults, each contain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Bustan, Tyre
Al-Bustan or Boustane () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 99.70% of registered voters in Al-Bustan. 98.00% of the voters were Sunni Muslims Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr () rightfully succeeded him as the caliph of the Musli .... The number of year-round residents of the town in 2024 was estimated to be about 1,300, though the population gets as high as 3,000 during certain parts of the year. References External linksBoustane (archive.org) Localiban *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3 IAA {{Tyre District [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Buss Refugee Camp
Al-Buss camp () – also transliterated Bass, Al-Bass, or El-Buss with the definite article spelled either al or el – is one of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, located in the Southern Lebanese city of Tyre. It had been a refuge for survivors of the Armenian genocide from the 1930s until the 1950s, built in a swamp area which during ancient times had for at least one and a half millennia been a necropolis (see article here). In recent decades it has been "''at the center of Tyre’s experience with precarity''" and "''a space that feels permanent yet unfinished, suspended in time.''" Territory Al-Buss is located in the north-eastern part of the Sour municipality. While Tyre as a whole is commonly known as Sour in Arabic, its urban area comprises parts of four municipalities: Sour, Ain Baal, Al-Aabbassiyah and Burj ash-Shamali. The two latter ones are close to Al-Buss. Burj ash-Shamali, about 2 km to the east of Al-Buss, also hosts a Palestinian refuge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burj Rahal
Burj Rahal () is a municipality in the Tyre District in South Lebanon. Etymology According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name ''Burj Rahhal'' means "the traveller’s tower". History In the 1860s, Ernest Renan found here seven singular constructions in a row, three being open, the rest closed. He was also informed that to the north-east of these, there were seven more hidden under grounds. The locals call them the Tombs of the Tyrian Kings, ''Kubur el Moluk''. In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 400 Metawileh inhabitants. "Here are seen good cut stones lying here and there, taken from an ancient fort."Guérin, 1880, p248 as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p58/ref> He further noted: "Ten minutes to the west of the village I observed three good subterranean magazines contiguous and parallel. Partly cut in the rock and partly constructed of cut stones, they measure ten metres in length by a breadth not greater than a metre and a half. They are covered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burj Ash-Shamali Refugee Camp
Burj el-Shamali (Arabic: مخيم برج الشمالي) is a municipality located some 86 km south of Beirut and 3 km east of the Tyre/Sour peninsula, merging into its urban area. It is located in the Tyre District of the South Governorate of Lebanon. It is particularly known for hosting the second-largest of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in the country as a '' de facto'' autonomous exclave effectively out of the reach of Lebanese officials: The camp is ruled by Popular Committees of Palestinian parties under the leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) which is de facto recognised by the municipality through some degree of coordination and cooperation. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has the mandate to provide basic services, assisted by local and international NGOs. The Lebanese Armed Forces control entry and exit through the camp's main gate. Etymology Burj el-Shamali – also tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Burghuliyah
Al-Burghuliyah () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 99.88% of registered voters in Al-Burghuliyah. 96.26% of the voters were Sunni Muslims Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr () rightfully succeeded him as the caliph of the Musli .... References External linksBourgheliyeh (archive.org) Localiban *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 1 IAA {{Tyre District Populated places in Tyre District [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
