Bazouriyeh

Bazourieh (Arabic: البازوريه) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

Bazourieh
البازوريه
Bazouriyeh
Municipality
Map showing the location of Bazouriyeh within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Bazouriyeh within Lebanon
Bazourieh
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°15′14″N 35°16′18″E
Grid position175/295 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Lebanon Governorate
DistrictTyre District
Founded byMohammad Srour
Government
Elevation
175 m (574 ft)
Population
  Total20,000
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+9617

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "producing pot-herbs".[1]

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, al-Bazuri, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 22 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 4,243 akçe.[2][3]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village built of stone, containing 300 Metawileh, situated on a ridge. One oil-press and one rock-cut cistern are the only antiquities. Water is obtained from a spring half a mile to the west."[4]

Other

Bazouriyeh is the ancestral home of Hassan Nasrallah.

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, pp. 3, 5
  2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180
  3. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 47

Bibliography

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