Yarine ( ar, يارين) is a village in the
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 ...
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 Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...
, located 19 kilometres south of
Tyre. The people of the village are Sunni Muslims.
Name
According to
E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name ''Kh. Yarin'' comes from "the ruin of Yârîn, p.n."
History
There are remains of a
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
church SE of the village site, and a "Tower or fortlet on hill top surrounded by enclosure wall built of large
ashlar masonry".
Ottoman era
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 here 'On the east extends a sort of avenue, formerly bordered by important buildings. One remarks especially the remains of a great edifice measuring forty-five paces in length from west to east by twenty-two in breadth from north to south. It was built of finely cut stones lying one upon the other with cement, and terminated at the east in three
apse
In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an '' exedra''. ...
s, the largest of which, that in the centre, is still partly upright. It was once an ancient
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* C ...
divided into three
nave
The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
s by monolithic columns, some undulated fragments of which are lying on the ground . ….. Small cubes of mosaic in red, white, and black still adhere to the soil in several places.'
He further noted: "A large
cistern located near this monument to the west was built with great care.
The ruins of Yarin are now inhabited by only three or four Bedouin families, who graze their animals or cultivate a few plots of land."
In 1881, the
PEF's
''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) found here: “Large ruin; some small-sized drafted stones with bosses left rough, two stones bearing Latin crosses; remains of modern walls and heaps of stones; two rock-cut tombs with square-headed kokim;
loculi. In the more eastern one a figure of a human head is roughly cut out of the rock in the first chamber of the tomb, out of which two square loculi open.”
[Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp]
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References
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External links
Localiban
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3
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{{Tyre District
Populated places in Tyre District
Sunni Muslim communities in Lebanon