Jibbain

Jibbain
الجبين
Jebbayn, Jebbine
Map showing the location of Jibbain within Lebanon
Jibbain

Location within Lebanon

Coordinates: 33°7′23″N 35°14′0″E / 33.12306°N 35.23333°E / 33.12306; 35.23333Coordinates: 33°7′23″N 35°14′0″E / 33.12306°N 35.23333°E / 33.12306; 35.23333
Grid position 172/280 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate South Lebanon Governorate
District Tyre District
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)

Jibbain (Arabic: الجبين) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the two pits".[1]

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, Jibin, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 7 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats, beehives; in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 2,177 akçe.[2][3]

In 1875 Victor Guérin noted here "a few Metawileh families", who inhabited an ancient locality.[4]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about seventy Metawileh; it is situated on a hill, with figs, olives, and arable land around. There are three cisterns for water."[5] They further noted a ruined, rock-cut birket.[6]

Modern era

On August 3 or 4, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli helicopter strikes killed 4 Hizbollah operatives in an uninhabited valley some 900 meters from Jibbain. At the same time they fired on the house nearest, killing 4 civilians, aged 42 to 81 years of age.[7]

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 43
  2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180
  3. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  4. Guérin, 1880, p. 130
  5. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 151
  6. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 169
  7. HRW, 2007, pp. 129-130

Bibliography

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