Zibqin

Zibqine
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 was heavily damaged in the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war and underwent a heavy process of rebuilding.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name probably comes from the Arabic word for "to bind", or "confine".^[1]

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to contain eighty Metawileh.^[2] He further "observed a great pool, constructed with regularly cut stones, and several broken columns. On the chapter of one he saw a mosaic representing a cross fleuronnée, which proves that it came from a church."^[3]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "Small ruined village on a hill, surrounded by brushwood ; contains about thirty Moslems [..], and has olives and arable land to the south. The water is supplied by cisterns."^[4]

References

^ Palmer, 1881, pp. 46 60
^ Guérin, 1880, p. 411, as given by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 152
^ Guérin, 1880, p. 411, as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 193
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 152

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.
Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
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.
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

33°10′N 35°16′E / 33.167°N 35.267°E / 33.167; 35.267

[1] Palmer, 1881, pp. 46 60

[2] Guérin, 1880, p. 411, as given by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 152

[3] Guérin, 1880, p. 411, as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 193

[4] Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 152

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v t e Tyre District, South Governorate
Capital: Tyre
Towns and villages	Aabbassiyeh Aalma ech Chaab Ain Baal Aitit Barish Bayyad Bazourieh Bedias Boustane Borj Ech Chemali Borj Rahal Chamaa Chaitiyeh Chehabiyeh Chehour Chihine Debaal Deir Aames Deir Kifa Deir Qanoun En Nahr Halloussiyeh Hanaouay Jennata Jibbain Jwaya Kneisseh Maarakeh Maaroub Mansouri Majadel Majdel Zoun Mahrouna Marwahin Naqoura Qana Qlaileh Ras al-Ain Rechknanay Selaa Siddikine Srifa Tayr Debba Tayr Falsay Tayr Harfa Toura Yarine Zalloutieh Zibqin
Palestinian refugee camps	El-Buss Burj el-Shemali Rashidieh
Other	Umm al-Amad Ladder of the Tyrians