Toura, Lebanon Explained

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.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name Torah comes from "flowing water".[1]

History

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]

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. 11
  2. Guérin, 1880, p. 250; partly translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 51
  3. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 51