Toura ( ar, طورا) is a small town in the
Tyre District in South
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 ...
, located 9 kilometres northeast of
Tyre.
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 ...
in 1881, the name ''Torah'' comes from "flowing water".
History
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 ...
found here 450
Metawileh. He further noted that the village occupied "the summit of a hill entirely covered with fig-trees."
In 1881, the
PEF's
''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village of mud and stone, situated on the top of a hill, and surrounded by figs, olives, and arable land. There are a spring and
cistern
A cistern (Middle English ', from Latin ', from ', "box", from Greek ', "basket") is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by t ...
s. It contains about 200
Metawileh."
[Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p]
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References
Bibliography
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External links
Localiban
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 1
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{{Tyre District
Populated places in Tyre District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon