| Deir Aames | |
| Native Name: | ديرعامص |
| Native Name Lang: | ara |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Lebanon |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Map showing the location of Deir Aames within Lebanon |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Lebanon |
| Coordinates: | 33.2008°N 35.3361°W |
| Grid Position: | 181/289 PAL |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | South Lebanon Governorate |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Tyre District |
| Elevation Max M: | 400 |
| 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 |
Deir Aames (Arabic: ديرعامص ) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the convent of Amis."[1]
In 1243, during the Crusader era, Deir Aames (called Derreme, or Dairrhamos) belonged to Venice.[2]
In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted: "'At Deir Amis there is a large basin of great stones, and a portion of wall which seemsof Crusading times. At the church there is a drawing like the stone of Aitit. As the stone of Deir Amis is certainly Christian, so must also be that of Aitit."[3]
In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by Metuali families.[4] He further noted: "numerous ruined houses, a fragment of a column in the interior of a small mosque, cut stones scattered over the ground, cisterns cut in the rock, a tank partly built and partly rock-cut. On an ancient lintel is carved a double cross in a circle."[5]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on a ridge,with olives and arable land around, containing about 100 Metawileh; water from cisterns."[6]
. Victor Guérin. Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. 1880. L'Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. French.
. 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.
. Ernest Renan. Mission de Phénicie. 1864. Imprimerie impériale . Paris. French.
. Reinhold Röhricht. (RRH) Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI). 1893. Libraria Academica Wageriana. Berlin. Latin.
