Qlaiaa ( ar, القليعة) is a village in the
Marjeyoun District
The Marjeyoun District is a district in the Nabatieh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Marjeyoun.
Marjeyoun
Marjayoun ( ar, مرج عيون: Lebanese pronunciation), also Marj 'Ayoun, Marjuyun or Marjeyoun (lit. "meadow o ...
in southern
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
. The inhabitants are mainly Maronite Christians.
Name
According to
E. H. Palmer
Edward Henry Palmer (7 August 184010 August 1882), known as E. H. Palmer, was an England, English oriental studies, orientalist and explorer.
Biography
Youth and education
Palmer was born in Green Street, Cambridge the son of a private schoo ...
, the name means "the little castle".
History
In 1838,
Eli Smith
Eli Smith (born September 13, 1801, in Northford, Connecticut, to Eli and Polly (Whitney) Smith, and died January 11, 1857, in Beirut, Lebanon) was an American Protestant missionary and scholar. He graduated from Yale College in 1821 and from Andov ...
noted Qlaiaa's population as
Maronite
The Maronites ( ar, الموارنة; syr, ܡܖ̈ܘܢܝܐ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of the Middle East, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the larges ...
.
In 1870
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 ...
found the village to have 400 Maronite inhabitants.
In 1881, the
PEF's
''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, containing about 1 50 Christians ; it contains a church, and is situated on a ridge, with vineyards, olives, figs, and arable land around ; it has a birket and spring near."
[Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p]
89
/ref> Note that a birket is a pool of water.
See also
* Catholic Church in Lebanon
References
Bibliography
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External links
Qlaiaa
Localiban
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2:
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Populated places in the Israeli security zone 1985–2000
Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon
Populated places in Marjeyoun District