Bazouriyeh

Bazourieh البازوريه Bazouriyeh
Municipality
Bazourieh Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°15′14″N 35°16′18″E / 33.25389°N 35.27167°ECoordinates: 33°15′14″N 35°16′18″E / 33.25389°N 35.27167°E
Grid position	175/295 PAL
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	South Lebanon Governorate
District	Tyre District
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Dialing code	+9617

Bazourieh (Arabic: البازوريه‎‎) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "producing pot-herbs".^[1]

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, al-Bazuri, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 22 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 4,243 akçe.^[2][3]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village built of stone, containing 300 Metawileh, situated on a ridge. One oil-press and one rock-cut cistern are the only antiquities. Water is obtained from a spring half a mile to the west."^[4]

Other

Bazouriyeh is the ancestral home of Hassan Nasrallah.

References

1. Palmer, 1881, pp. 3, 5
2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180
3. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 47

Bibliography

• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• 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.
• 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

• Bazouriyeh, Localiban
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 1: IAA, Wikimedia commons