Deir Aames

Coordinates: 33°12′03″N 35°20′10″E / 33.20083°N 35.33611°E / 33.20083; 35.33611
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Deir Aames
ديرعامص
Municipality
Map showing the location of Deir Aames within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Deir Aames within Lebanon
Deir Aames
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°12′03″N 35°20′10″E / 33.20083°N 35.33611°E / 33.20083; 35.33611
Grid position181/289 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Lebanon Governorate
DistrictTyre District
Highest elevation
400 m (1,300 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+9617

Deir Aames (Arabic: ديرعامص) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the convent of Amis."[1]

History

In the early 1860s Ernest Renan noted: "'At Deir Amis there is a large basin of great stones, and a portion of wall which seems of Crusading times. At the church there is a drawing like the stone of Aitit. As the stone of Deir Amis is certainly Christian, so must also be that of Aitit."[2]

In 1875 Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by Metuali families.[3] He further noted: "numerous ruined houses, a fragment of a column in the interior of a small mosque, cut stones scattered over the ground, cisterns cut in the rock, a tank partly built and partly rock-cut. On an ancient lintel is carved a double cross in a circle."[4]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on a ridge, with olives and arable land around, containing about 100 Metawileh; water from cisterns."[5]

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 20
  2. ^ Renan, 1864, p. 640; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 114
  3. ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 387-8
  4. ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 387-8; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 114
  5. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p

Bibliography

  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 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.
  • Renan, E. (1864). Mission de Phénicie (in French). Paris: Imprimerie impériale.

External links

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