Yarin () is a municipality in the

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 ...

southern Lebanon Southern Lebanon () is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s. The Rashaya and Western Beqaa districts, the southernmost distr ...

, located 19 kilometres south of Tyre.

Etymology

According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name ''Khŭrbet Yarin'' comes from "the ruin of Yârîn, p.n."

History

There are remains of a

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church SE of the village site, and a "Tower or fortlet on hill top surrounded by enclosure wall built of large

ashlar Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...

masonry".

Ottoman era

In 1875,

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found here 'On the east extends a sort of avenue, formerly bordered by important buildings. One remarks especially the remains of a great edifice measuring forty-five paces in length from west to east by twenty-two in breadth from north to south. It was built of finely cut stones lying one upon the other with cement, and terminated at the east in three

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s, the largest of which, that in the centre, is still partly upright. It was once an ancient

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divided into three

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s by monolithic columns, some undulated fragments of which are lying on the ground . ..... Small cubes of mosaic in red, white, and black still adhere to the soil in several places.' He further noted: "A large

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located near this monument to the west was built with great care. The ruins of Yarin are now inhabited by only three or four Bedouin families, who graze their animals or cultivate a few plots of land." In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) found here: “Large ruin; some small-sized drafted stones with bosses left rough, two stones bearing Latin crosses; remains of modern walls and heaps of stones; two rock-cut tombs with square-headed kokim;

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. In the more eastern one a figure of a human head is roughly cut out of the rock in the first chamber of the tomb, out of which two square loculi open.”

Lebanese Civil War

In July 1977 during the

Lebanese Civil War The Lebanese Civil War ( ) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities and led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon. The religious diversity of the ...

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forces led by

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carried out a massacre of

Palestinians Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenou ...

in the village, during which some 30 civilians were shot. During the civil war in the village was attacked several times by the Christian forces. The village was occupied by the IDF during the

First Lebanon War The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization ...

in June 1982, and was under Israeli control until May 2000, when the IDF withdrew from Lebanon. In 1993, a Lebanese citizen who came to visit his parents in the village was kidnapped by the State of Israel, on suspicion of passing information to

Hezbollah Hezbollah ( ; , , ) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. I ...

. He was held in Israel for 9 years and finally released to his home.

2024 Israel-Hezbollah conflict

At the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, the IDF carried out several attacks against

positions and people, in the village and in the region.

Demographics

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 99.78% of registered voters in Yarin. 96.70% 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 ...

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References

Bibliography

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External links

Yarine
Localiban *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3
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{{Tyre District Populated places in Tyre District Sunni Muslim communities in Lebanon