Bazourieh
البازوريه
Bazouriyeh
Municipality
Map showing the location of Bazouriyeh within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Bazouriyeh within Lebanon
Bazourieh
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°15′14″N 35°16′18″E / 33.25389°N 35.27167°E / 33.25389; 35.27167
Grid position175/295 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Lebanon Governorate
DistrictTyre District
Founded byMohammad Srour
Government
Elevation
175 m (574 ft)
Population
 • Total20,000
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+9617

Bazourieh (Arabic: البازوريه) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "producing pot-herbs".[1]

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, al-Bazuri, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 22 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 4,243 akçe.[2][3]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village built of stone, containing 300 Metawileh, situated on a ridge. One oil-press and one rock-cut cistern are the only antiquities. Water is obtained from a spring half a mile to the west."[4]

Other

Bazouriyeh is the ancestral home of Hassan Nasrallah.

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, pp. 3, 5
  2. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180
  3. ↑ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  4. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 47

Bibliography

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