Toura | |
Native Name: | طورا |
Settlement Type: | Small Town |
Pushpin Map: | Lebanon |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Lebanon |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | South Governorate |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Tyre |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Elevation M: | 400 |
Timezone: | GMT +3 |
Coordinates: | 33.2936°N 35.2978°W |
Grid Position: | 108/151 L |
Toura (Arabic: طورا) is a small town in the Tyre District in South Lebanon, located 9 kilometres northeast of Tyre.
According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name Torah comes from "flowing water".[1]
In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 450 Metawileh. He further noted that the village occupied "the summit of a hill entirely covered with fig-trees."[2]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village of mud and stone, situated on the top of a hill, and surrounded by figs, olives, and arable land. There are a spring and cisterns. It contains about 200 Metawileh."[3]
. 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.