Tleil ( ar, تليل ) (also ''Tlayleh, Tlaile, Tuleil, Tlayl, Al-Talil, Altalil'') is a town in
Akkar Governorate,
Lebanon, close to the border with
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
.
The population in Tleil belongs to various Christian denominations.
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 the village as ''Tuleil'', whose inhabitants were
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 ...
or
Greek Orthodox Christians, located east of
esh-Sheikh Mohammed.
Modern era
In August 2021, at least 28 people were killed and 79 injured in Tleil after a fuel tank exploded. The fuel tanker had been confiscated by the Lebanese army from black marketeers, the fuel was then distributed/taken by the locals. The son of the man whose land the fuel tanker was located on, was later arrested, accused of deliberately causing the explosion.
Lebanon rages after deadly fuel tank explosion
Mohamed Hassan, 16 August 2021, Middleeasteye
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Tleil
Localiban
{{Akkar District
Populated places in Akkar District
Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon
Eastern Orthodox Christian communities in Lebanon