Rab El Thalathine

Rab El Thalathine
Rab El Thalathine ; رب الثلاثين
	Village
	Rab El Thalathine Location within Lebanon
	Coordinates: 33°14′56″N 35°28′59″E
Grid position	198/294 PAL
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Marjeyoun District
Elevation	620 m (2,030 ft)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code	+961

Rab El Thalathine (رب الثلاثين) is a village in the Marjeyoun District in southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name Rubb Thelâthin comes from rubb meaning syrup; and thelâthin meaning thirty.[1]

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found it to be a village inhabited by Metawileh. He further remarked that the mosque was constructed out of parts from an old church.[2]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "several lintels and cisterns."[3]

They further described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on a hill-top, surrounded by figs and arable land; water supply from cisterns and spring near, and a small birket.[4]

Modern era

During the 2006 Lebanon War, on the 10th of August, Israeli missiles killed five women in the village, aged from 31 to 82 years of age. There were no indications that Hezbollah fighters were present at the time of the strikes.[5]

References

Palmer, 1881, p. 32
Guérin, 1880, p. 272
Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 138
Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 89-90
HRW, 2007, pp. 142-143

Bibliography

Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
HRW (2007). Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War. Human Rights Watch.
Palmer, E.H. (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.

External links

Rabb Et Talatine, Localiban
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] Palmer, 1881, p. 32

[2] Guérin, 1880, p. 272

[3] Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 138

[4] Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 89-90

[5] HRW, 2007, pp. 142-143

Marjeyoun District, Nabatieh Governorate
Capital	Marjeyoun
Towns and villages	Adaisseh Aadchit Alman Bani Haiyyan Blat Blida Deir Mimas Deir Siriane Dibbine Hula Ibl al-Saqi Kafr Kila Khiam Majdel Selm Markaba Meiss Ej Jabal Muhajbib Qabrikha Qantara Qlaiaa Qoussair Rab El Thalathine Talloussa Tayibe
Other	Tell Dibbine