Zibqin

Zibqine
Village
زبقين
Grid position	175/285 PAL
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	South Governorate
District	Tyre
Area
• Total	5.63 sq mi (14.57 km2)
• Land	5.63 sq mi (14.57 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Highest elevation	1,840 ft (560 m)
Lowest elevation	1,280 ft (390 m)
Population  (2015)
• Total	3,000
Time zone	GMT +3

Zibqine is a town in South Lebanon, 103 kilometres (64 mi) from the capital, Beirut, 4 km from the border with Israel and 450 metres (1,476.4 ft) above sea level.

It contains the following families: Bzeih (roughly 80%), Slaibi, Barakat, Moslem, Atwi and others. It was heavily damaged in the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war and underwent a heavy process of rebuilding.

Bibliography

• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp.152, 193)
• Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 411)
• HRW (2007). Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War. Human Rights Watch. (pp. 87- 88)
• Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2. (p. 182)
• 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. ( p.60)
• Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.

External links

• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Zebqine, Localiban
• http://zebqine.com