Harouf

Harouf حاروف
village
Harouf Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°22′N 35°27′E / 33.367°N 35.450°ECoordinates: 33°22′N 35°27′E / 33.367°N 35.450°E
Grid position	122/160 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	+3 (UTC)

Harouf (in Arabic حاروف) is a village in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon and is located north of the Litani River. The village is economically important due to the presence of a famous industrial area in it known as "Marj Harouf".

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Haruf, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 12 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 2,459 akçe.^[1][2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found Haroun to be a village of about 140 Metualis. He further noted several sarcophagi, convincing him that it was an ancient place.^[3]

References

1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
2. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
3. Guérin, 1880, p. 527

Bibliograhy

• Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
• 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.
• Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.

External links

• Harouf (Nabatiyeh), Localiban