Deir Aames ( ar, ديرعامص ) is a municipality in
Southern Lebanon
Southern Lebanon () is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s. The Rashaya and Western Beqaa Districts, the southernmost distri ...
, located in
Tyre District
The Tyre District is a district in the South Governorate of Lebanon.
History Ancient history
Founded at the start of the third millennium BC, Tyre originally consisted of a mainland settlement and a modest island city that lay a short distance o ...
,
Governorate of South Lebanon.
Name
According to
E. H. Palmer, the name means "the convent of Amis."
History
In 1243, during the
Crusader era
The Crusader States, also known as Outremer, were four Catholic realms in the Middle East that lasted from 1098 to 1291. These feudal polities were created by the Latin Catholic leaders of the First Crusade through conquest and political in ...
, Deir Aames (called ''Derreme'', or ''Dairrhamos'') belonged to
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...
.
Ottoman era
In the early 1860s,
Ernest Renan noted: "'At Deir Amis there is a large basin of great stones, and a portion of wall which seems
of
Crusading
The First Crusade inspired the crusading movement, which became an important part of late medieval western culture. The movement influenced the Church, politics, the economy, society and created a distinct ideology that described, regulated, a ...
times. At
the church there is a drawing like the stone of
Aitit. As the stone of Deir Amis is certainly Christian, so must also be that of Aitit."
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 Min ...
found the village to be inhabited by
Metuali
Lebanese Shia Muslims ( ar, المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيين), historically known as ''matāwila'' ( ar, متاولة, plural of ''mutawālin'' ebanese pronounced as ''metouali'' refers to Lebanese people who are adherents ...
families. He further noted: "numerous ruined houses, a fragment of a
column in the interior of a small
mosque
A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...
, cut stones scattered over the ground,
cisterns cut in the rock, a tank partly built and partly rock-cut. On an ancient
lintel is carved a double cross in a circle."
In 1881, the
PEF's
''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on a ridge,
with olives and arable land around, containing about 100
Metawileh
Lebanese Shia Muslims ( ar, المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيين), historically known as ''matāwila'' ( ar, متاولة, plural of ''mutawālin'' ebanese pronounced as ''metouali'' refers to Lebanese people who are adherents ...
; water from
cisterns."
[ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p]
91
/ref>
References
Bibliography
*
*
*
*
*
*
External links
Localiban
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2
IAAWikimedia commons
{{Tyre District
Populated places in Tyre District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon