Harouf (in
Arabic
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حاروف) is a village in the
Nabatieh Governorate region of southern
Lebanon
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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
A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...
'' (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
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,
barley
Barley (''Hordeum vulgare''), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 10,000 years ago. Globally 70% of barley pr ...
, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 2,459
akçe
The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (also spelled ''akche'', ''akcheh''; ota, آقچه; ) refers to a silver coin which was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. The word itself evolved from the word "silver or silver money", this word is deri ...
.
[Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185]
In 1875,
Victor Guérin
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found Harouf to be a village of about 140
Metualis. He further noted several
sarcophagi, convincing him that it was an ancient place.
[Guérin, 1880, p]
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References
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External links
Localiban
{{Nabatieh District
Populated places in Nabatieh District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon