Qlaileh

Qlaileh القليلة Leileh
Village
Qlaileh
Coordinates: 33°11′47″N 35°13′52″E
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”.

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.

In 1881, the PEF'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."

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.

External links

• Qlaileh, Localiban
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 1: IAA, Wikimedia commons