| Deir Qanoun En Nahr | |
| Native Name: | دير قانون النهر |
| 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: | 33.2989°N 35.3147°W |
| Grid Position: | 110/152 L |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | South Lebanon Governorate |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Tyre District |
| Elevation M: | 260 |
| 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 Qanoun En Nahr (Arabic: دير قانون النهر) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, Deir Kânûn meant: the convent of the rule (canon).[1]
In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted here a decorated Sarcophagus.[2]
In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by 400 Metualis.[3] He further noted: "Here I saw an ancient rock-cut basin, many cut-stones built up in private houses or forming the enclosure of gardens and cisterns, and, on the surface of a block lying on the ground, figures carved, to the number of five, each in a different frame. Unfortunately they are much mutilated by time and rough usage. The best preserved has the head surmounted by the high Egyptian coiffure known under the name of pschent, and holds in one hand a sort of curved stick."[4]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on the top of a hill, surrounded by gardens, fig-trees, olives, and arable land, containing about 250 Metawileh; water supply from springs, birket, and cisterns."[5]
. 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.
