Rab El Thalathine

Rab El Thalathine
رب الثلاثين
Village
Map showing the location of Rab El Thalathine within Lebanon
Rab El Thalathine
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°14′56″N 35°28′59″E / 33.24889°N 35.48306°E / 33.24889; 35.48306Coordinates: 33°14′56″N 35°28′59″E / 33.24889°N 35.48306°E / 33.24889; 35.48306
Grid position 198/294 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate Nabatieh Governorate
District Marjeyoun District
Elevation 620 m (2,030 ft)
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code +961

Rab El Thalathine (رب الثلاثين) is a village in the Marjeyoun District in southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name Rubb Thelâthin comes from rubb meaning syrup; and thelâthin meaning thirty.[1]

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found it to be a village inhabited by Metawileh. He further remarked that the mosque was constructed out of parts from an old church.[2]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "several lintels and cisterns."[3]

They further described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on a hill-top, surrounded by figs and arable land; water supply from cisterns and spring near, and a small birket.[4]

Modern era

During 2006 Lebanon War, on the 10 August, Israeli missiles killed a total of 5 women in the village, aged from 31 to 82 years of age. There were no indication that Hizbollah fighters were present at the time of the strikes.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 32
  2. ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 272
  3. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 138
  4. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 89-90
  5. ↑ HRW, 2007, pp. 142-143

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.
  • HRW (2007). Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War. Human Rights Watch.
  • 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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