Qlaileh

Qlaileh
القليلة
Leileh
Village
Qlaileh
Coordinates: 33°11′47″N 35°13′52″E / 33.19639°N 35.23111°E / 33.19639; 35.23111
Grid position 171/289 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate South Governorate
District Tyre
Time zone GMT +3

Qlaileh, Leileh, (Arabic: القليلة‎) is a village in the Tyre District in South Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name Leileh comes from a female proper name; it also means “night”.[1]

History

In 1875 Victor Guérin describes a ruin here, which he calls Kh. Kleileh. The upright of oil-presses, a winepress cut in the rock, with two compartments, one round and one square, and three broken sarcophagi, are all that remain here. A short distance south of this place he found another ruined hamlet, having a cistern cut in the rock, and an enormous millstone lying on the ground, called Kh. Ratieh.[2]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small well-built stone village, containing about 50 Moslems, surrounded by olives and arable ground. The water supply is from 'Ain Zaheiriyeh."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 9
  2. ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 238; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 68
  3. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 50

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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