Bazouriyeh Explained

Bazourieh
Other Name:Bazouriyeh
Native Name:البازوريه
Native Name Lang:ara
Settlement Type:Municipality
Pushpin Map:Lebanon
Pushpin Map Alt:Map showing the location of Bazouriyeh within Lebanon
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Lebanon
Coordinates:33.2539°N 35.2717°W
Grid Position:175/295 PAL
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:South Lebanon Governorate
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Tyre District
Founder:Ibrahim Nehme
Leader Name:Ali Diab
Elevation M:175
Population Total:20000
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:EET
Utc Offset1:+2
Timezone1 Dst:EEST
Utc Offset1 Dst:+3
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code Type:Dialing code
Area Code:+9617

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

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.

Bibliography

. Edward Henry Palmer. 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.

. Harold Rhode . 1979 . Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century . . 2017-12-04 . 2019-04-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190420031504/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century . dead .

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Notes and References

  1. Palmer, 1881, pp. 3, 5
  2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180
  3. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 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