Toura, Lebanon

Toura (Arabic: طورا‎) is a village in the Tyre District in South Lebanon.

Toura

طورا
Village
Toura
Coordinates: 33°17′37″N 35°17′52″E
Grid position108/151 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictTyre
Time zoneGMT +3

Name

According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name Torah comes from "flowing water".[1]

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."[2]

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 cisterns. It contains about 200 Metawileh."[3]

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 11
  2. Guérin, 1880, p. 250; partly translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 51
  3. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 51

Bibliography
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
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