Mimess ( ar, ميمس) is a local authority the
Hasbaya District in
Lebanon.
History
In 1838, during the
Ottoman era,
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 the population of ''Mimis'' as being
Druze
The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...
and
"Greek" Christians.
In 1875
Victor Guérin noted: "At nine hours fifteen minutes, I crossed the ''Wadi Mimas'', which leads to the
Wadi et-Teim Wadi al-Taym ( ar, وادي التيم, Wādī al-Taym), also transliterated as Wadi el-Taym, is a wadi (dry river) that forms a large fertile valley in Lebanon, in the districts of Rachaya and Hasbaya on the western slopes of Mount Hermon. It adjo ...
. Beyond, to the north, rises, on a hill, the village of the same name. It is inhabited by Druses and schismatic Greeks. Some ruins on a mound next to this village, on the west side, are called ''Kharbet Ras A'ly''".
[Guérin, 1880, p]
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External links
Mimess
Localiban
{{Hasbaya District
Populated places in Hasbaya District
Druze communities in Lebanon