Ghanduriyah

Ghandouriyeh
غندورية
Village
Map showing the location of Yater within Lebanon
Ghandouriyeh
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°16′20″N 35°25′52″E / 33.27222°N 35.43111°E / 33.27222; 35.43111Coordinates: 33°16′20″N 35°25′52″E / 33.27222°N 35.43111°E / 33.27222; 35.43111
Grid position 190/297 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate Nabatieh Governorate
District Bint Jbeil
Elevation 430 m (1,410 ft)
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Ghandouriyeh (Arabic: غندورية‎) is a Lebanese municipality located in the Bint Jbeil District, south of Froun. It was formerly known as Aidib.

Name

In the 1800s, the village was called Aidib, and E. H. Palmer wrote in 1881 that the name came from a local form connected with “much sand”.[1]

History

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Aidib as: "A small village, built of stone and mud, situated on the slope of a hill and surrounded by a few fig-trees and olives. It contains about ninety Metawileh, and is supplied with water from three rock-cut cisterns and a spring."[2]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 13
  2. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 202

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.
  • 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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