Talloussah () is a municipality in the
Marjayoun District
The Marjayoun District is a district in the Nabatieh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Marjayoun.
Marjayoun stands at a hill facing Mount Hermon to the East, with Beaufort Castle, Lebanon, Beaufort Castle. The Litani River an ...
in southern
Lebanon
Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...
.
Etymology
According to
E. H. Palmer, the name comes from a personal name.
History
The famed Second Scholarly Martyr of Shia Islam,
Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili ''al-Ṭalluṣī'', traces his ancestry to the Talloussah village.
In 1881, the
PEF's
''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it as: "A small village, built of stone, containing about 100
Metawileh
Lebanese Shia Muslims (), communally and historically known as ''matāwila'' (, plural of ''mutawālin''; pronounced as ''metouéle'' in Lebanese Arabic), are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role ...
, situated on hill-top, and surrounded by arable cultivation, water supplied from
cistern
A cistern (; , ; ) is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. To prevent leakage, the interior of the cistern is often lined with hydraulic plaster.
Cisterns are disti ...
s and birket."
On 4 March 1992 one
SLA member was killed and five wounded in an ambush on the Talloussah road. The following day the
IDF raided the village, searching houses and detaining villagers.
UNIFIL
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (; ), or UNIFIL (; ) is a United Nations peacekeeping mission established on 19 March 1978 by United Nations Security Council Resolutions 425 and 426, and several further resolutions in 2006 to con ...
lodged a complaint with the Israelis after their observers were prevented from entering the village to inspect condition of residents.
During the
2006 Lebanon War
The 2006 Lebanon War was a 34-day armed conflict in Lebanon, fought between Hezbollah and Israel. The war started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, thoug ...
,
Israeli warplanes killed three civilians belonging to the
Mukhtar
A mukhtar (; ) is a village chief in the Levant: "an old institution that goes back to the time of the Ottoman rule". According to Amir S. Cheshin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed, the mukhtar "for centuries were the central figures". They "were ...
´s family in the village.
Demographics
As of 2010, the village had approximately 3,017 residents, though only 400 lived in the settlement year round, rising to about 1,100 in the summer months. Most of the remaining population had been displaced by the 2006 Lebanon War and had either settled in the southern suburbs of Beirut or were living abroad. It is unclear how many of the displaced would return in the coming years.
In 2014
Muslims
Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...
made up 99.77% of registered voters in Talloussah. 98.79% of the voters were
Shiite Muslims.
[ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/مرجعيون/طلوسه/المذاهب/ ]
References
Bibliography
*
*
*
External links
Talloussa Localiban
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2:
IAAWikimedia commons
{{Marjayoun District
Populated places in Marjayoun District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon