Toura, Lebanon

Toura ( ar, طورا) is a small town in the Tyre District in South Lebanon, located 9 kilometres northeast of Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre.

Name

According to Edward Henry Palmer, E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name ''Torah'' comes from "flowing water".

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 450 Metawileh. He further noted that the village occupied "the summit of a hill entirely covered with fig-trees."

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund, PEF's PEF Survey of Palestine, ''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 cisterns. It contains about 200 Metawileh."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p
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Populated places in Tyre District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon