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Aitit

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Aitit
عيتيت
Town
Aitit is located in Lebanon
Aitit
Aitit
Coordinates: 33°13′28″N 35°18′19″E / 33.22444°N 35.30528°E / 33.22444; 35.30528
Grid position178/292 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictTyre District
Area
 • Land2.76 sq mi (7.1 km2)
Elevation
950 ft (290 m)
Population
 (2011)[citation needed]
 • Total12,000
Time zoneGMT +3

Aitit[1] is a town located in Tyre District, South Lebanon, north of Qana. Aitit's residents are primarily Shiite Muslim.

History

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In the early 1860s Ernest Renan noted: "Its antiquities are a stone with three circles, two with rays, in which are crosses (not of great age), a grotto, and beside it a good sarcophagus lid serving to support a press. Near Aitit is a rectangular cemetery, well preserved".[2]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "A village, built of stone, containing about 450 Metawileh, situated on hill-top, surrounded by olives and arable cultivation; water supplied from cisterns and a spring near."[3]

They further noted: "There are traces at this village of ancient remains. It is said by the natives that there was once a church here. There are broken pillars scattered about, stone lintels, three caves, and three olive-presses, with cisterns."[4] Aitit is mainly occupied by the family of the Mohsens, who have the majority of the village.

Attacks on Aitit

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Due to it being close to Israel many attacks have been made against Hezbollah in Aitit. Most of these incidents were due to the 2006 Lebanon War.

References

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  1. ^ From personal name, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 17
  2. ^ Renan, 1864, p. 641, as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 108
  3. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 90
  4. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 108

Bibliography

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  • 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.
  • 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.
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