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Barish
باريش Baarish | |
|---|---|
  Barish Location within Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°17′10″N 35°19′10″E / 33.28611°N 35.31944°E | |
| Grid position | 110/150 L |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | South Lebanon Governorate |
| District | Tyre District |
| Elevation | 350 m (1,150 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Barish (Template:Lang-ar) is a local authority in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
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.” [1]
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
In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village, (which he called Djennateh), to have 60 Metawileh inhabitants.[2] He further noted: "The village contains a number of ruined houses. A little mosque is partly built of ancient materials."[3]
In 1881, the PEF's 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 wells in the village."[4]
References
- ^ Daher, Al Cheick Saliman. Dictionary of Jabal Amel Village. Imam Al-Sadiq Foundation for Research in the Heritage of the Scholars of Jabal Amel. p. 73.
- ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 256
- ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 256, as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 116
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 92
