Aalma ech Chaab

Aalma ech Chaab
علما الشعب
Alma ash-Shab
Village
Aalma ech Chaab
Coordinates: 33°06′18.4″N 35°10′15.6″E / 33.105111°N 35.171000°E / 33.105111; 35.171000
Grid position 167/278 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate South Governorate
District Tyre
Highest elevation 1,250 ft (380 m)
Time zone GMT +3

Aalma ech Chaab (علما الشعب) is a village in the Tyre District, in Southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, ’Alma means "a coat of mail"; while Shảub means "mountain spurs".[1]

History

In 1875, during the late Ottoman era, Victor Guérin found here a village with 350 inhabitants, mostly Greek Orthodox, or Maronite.[2]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: “A large Christian village, containing about 500 inhabitants. The houses are clean and well built. There are two chapels, and the place seems increasing in size. It is situated on a ridge, with figs, olives, and pomegranates and arable land around. To the east and north the land is covered with brushwood. There is a spring within reach, and about thirty rock-cut cisterns in the village.”[3]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 40
  2. ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 136
  3. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 150 -151

Bibliography

  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
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