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Tayr Harfa

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Tayr Harfa
طير حرفا
Village
Tayr Harfa is located in Lebanon
Tayr Harfa
Tayr Harfa
Coordinates: 33°7′35″N 35°13′9″E / 33.12639°N 35.21917°E / 33.12639; 35.21917
Grid position170/281 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictTyre
Highest elevation
1,380 ft (420 m)
Time zoneGMT +3

Tayr Harfa (Arabic: طير حرفا) is a village in Tyre District in Southern Lebanon, located 16 kilometres south of Tyre.

Name

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According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "The fortress of Harfa".[1]

History

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In 1852, during the late Ottoman era, Edward Robinson noted it on his travels in the region.[2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 200 Metuali inhabitants.[3]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A stone and mud village, containing about 200 Moslems, on a hill, with olives, figs, and arable land, and waste ground covered with brushwood. Water from cisterns."[4]

References

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  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 55
  2. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1856, p. 62
  3. ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 129-130
  4. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 151

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