Deir Ez Zahrani ( ar, دير الزهراني) is a populated area in southern Lebanon. It is located from
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
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History
In 1875 Victor Guérin
Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 Septembe 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included Greece, Asia Mino ...
noted: " eir Zaharany islocated on a hill, has a population of 100 Métualis
Lebanese Shia Muslims ( ar, المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيين), historically known as ''matāwila'' ( ar, متاولة, plural of ''mutawālin'' ebanese pronounced as ''metouali'' refers to Lebanese people who are adherents ...
, to which must be added about twenty Christians. It succeeded an ancient locality, as evidenced by several fragments of scattered column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member. ...
s here and there and a number of ashlar
Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...
s embedded in a ruined mosque and in private houses. It was in one of these dwellings that was found in 1861, and brought back to the khan of Saida, an ancient funerary cippe, with palm, crown and lemnisque, and whose Greek inscription was reproduced by Mr. Renan."[Guérin, 1880, p]
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"A sept heures trente minutes, je poursuis ma route vers l'est-sud- est, el à huit heures vingt minutes je parviens à Deir Zaharany. Ce village, situé sur une colline, a une population de 100 Métualis, auxquels il faut ajouter une vingtaine de Chrétiens. Il a succédé à une localité antique, comme l'attestent plusieurs fragments de colonnes épars çà et là et un certain nombre de pierres de taille encastrées dans une mosquée en ruine et dans des maisons particulières. C'est dans une de ces habitations qu'a été trouvé eu 1861, ét rapporté au khan de Saïda, un ancien cippe funéraire, avec palme, couronne et lemnisque, et dont l'inscription grecque a été reproduite par M. Renan."
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Localiban
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Populated places in Nabatieh District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon