Hanine Explained

Hanine
Native Name:حانين
Native Name Lang:ara
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Lebanon
Pushpin Map Alt:Map showing the location of Hanine within Lebanon
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Lebanon
Coordinates:33.1094°N 35.3806°W
Grid Position:186/279 PAL
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Nabatieh Governorate
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Bint Jbeil District
Elevation M:670
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

Hanine (Arabic: حانين) is a municipality in Lebanon located in the Bint Jbeil District.

Name

E. H. Palmer wrote that the name Hanine came from a personal name.[1] However, the name has Semitic-Arabic roots, which means "Mercy".[2]

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to have 250 Metuali inhabitants.[3] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A small village, built of stone; 100 Moslems; on end of rocky ridge, with vineyards and arable land; water from 'Ain Hanin in the valley below."[4]

They further noted: "This is evidently an ancient site ; the rock to the south of the village is cut into cisterns ; tombs with side and end on kokim loculi; sarcophagi or tombs covered with flat lid on the surface; birkets for holding rainwater; olive-presses and wine-presses in considerable numbers, all cutin the rock. There is no ancient masonry in the village, except at the mouth of an enormous cistern, where the round arches that support the wheel for drawing up the water may be ancient. A little down the hill on the south-east there are some sarcophagi cut out of the rock on pedestals ; steps lead up on the west side to one of them ; there are grooves for the lids to fit into, but these are in all cases wanting ; they had probably a ridge and knobs at the four corners, as frequently observed elsewhere."[5]

Bibliography

. 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 72
  2. Web site: أصل تسمية بلدة حانين . bintjbeil-um.gov . Arabic . 13 April 2012 . 8 October 2020 . 16 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201016102503/http://www.bintjbeil-um.gov.lb/?p=1352 . dead .
  3. Guerin, 1880, p. 121
  4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 201
  5. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 223