Mimess ( ar, ميمس) is a local authority the

Hasbaya District The Hasbaya District is a district in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon. It lies in the southeast, bordering Syria. The capital of the district is Hasbaya Hasbeya or Hasbeiya ( ar, حاصبيا) is a town in Lebanon, situated at the foot of Mo ...

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 ...

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 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: "At nine hours fifteen minutes, I crossed the ''Wadi Mimas'', which leads to the Wadi et-Teim. 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
299
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Localiban {{Hasbaya District Populated places in Hasbaya District Druze communities in Lebanon