Al-Bazouriyah (Arabic: البازورية) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
Al-Bazouriyah
البازورية Al-Bazouriyeh | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
  Al-Bazouriyah Location within Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°15′14″N 35°16′18″E / 33.25389°N 35.27167°E | |
| Grid position | 175/295 PAL |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | South Lebanon Governorate |
| District | Tyre District |
| Founded by | Ibrahim Nehme |
| Government | |
| Elevation | 175 m (574 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 20,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Dialing code | +9617 |
Name
editAccording to E. H. Palmer, the name means "producing pot-herbs".[1]
History
editIn 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]
Demographics
editIn 2014 Muslims made up 99.55% of registered voters in Al-Bazouriyah. 97.81% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[5]
Notable people
editAl-Bazouriyah is the ancestral home of Hassan Nasrallah.
References
edit- ^ Palmer, 1881, pp. 3, 5
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180
- ^ 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
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 47
- ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/البازورية/المذاهب/
Bibliography
edit- 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.
- Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- 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.
- Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
External links
edit- Bazouriyeh, Localiban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 1: IAA, Wikimedia commons
