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==Name==
Anis 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=Imam Al-Sadiq Foundation 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>
==Location==
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. The number of its registered residents is 5000, expatriates 1500.
==History==
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