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'''Barish''' ({{lang-langx|ar|باريش }}) is a local authority in [[Southern Lebanon]], located in [[Tyre District]], [[South Governorate|Governorate of South Lebanon]].
==Name==
nisAnis Freiha said that the origin of her name is Syriac: “The house of the chief and the lieutenant colonel, and he mentioned that there is another possibility that it is from the Hebrew bero ?sh: cypress, and in the Aramaic bero ?sh, and in the Syriac.” <ref>{{cite book |last1=Daher, Al Cheick Saliman. |title=Dictionary of Jabal Amel Village |publisher=Daher,Imam Al-Sadiq CheickFoundation Saliman.for Research in the Heritage of the Scholars of Jabal Amel |pages=73 |url=http://www.masaha.org/book/view/3744-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AC%D9%85-%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%89-%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%84-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84}}</ref>
==HistoryLocation==
Barish is located in the South Governorate, Tyre District. It is 350 m above sea level and 89 kilometers to the southwest of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, or about an hour and a half, and 16 km from the center of its district Tyre. Its land area is 404 hectares. <ref>{{cite web |title=Barish |url=http://www.localiban.org/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4 |website=www.localiban.org |access-date=30 June 2016}}</ref> The number of its registered residents is 5000, expatriates 1500. <ref>{{cite web |title=Barish Village |url=https://lebanonnow1.blogspot.com/2018/03/blog-post_35.html |website=lebanonnow1.blogspot.com}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |title=Barish |url=https://baladi-lb.com/?page_id=343 |website=baladi-lb.com}}</ref>
In 1875, [[Victor Guérin]] found the village, (which he called ''Djennateh''), to have 60 [[Metawileh]] inhabitants.<ref>Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n296/mode/1up 256]</ref> He further noted: "The village contains a number of ruined houses. A little [[mosque]] is partly built of
ancient materials."<ref>Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n296/mode/1up 256], as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/116/mode/1up 116]</ref>
== Education ==
In 1881, the [[Palestine Exploration Fund|PEF]]'s [[PEF Survey of Palestine|''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP)]] described it: "A small village of stone and mud, containing about 100 Moslems. […] It lies low, on arable land. The water is supplied by two [[Water well|wells]] in the village."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/92/mode/1up 92]</ref>
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! Educational establishments!! Barish (2005-2006)!! Lebanon (2005–2006)
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| Number of Schools || 1 || 2788
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| Public School || 1 || 1763
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| Private School|| 0 || 1025
|-
| Students schooled in the public schools || 431 || 439905
|-
| Students schooled in the private schools || 0|| 471409
|}
==References==
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==Bibliography==
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*{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|authorlink1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|authorlink2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|___location=London|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]|volume=1}}
*{{cite book|last=Guérin|first=V.|authorlink=Victor Guérin|title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog|volume=3: Galilee, pt. 2|year=1880|publisher= L'Imprimerie Nationale|___location=Paris|language=French}}
*{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|authorlink=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=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|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]}}
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==External links==
*[http://www.localiban.org/article5933.html Jennata], Localiban
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8365 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.02.jpg Wikimedia commons]
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