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Village in South Governorate, Lebanon
Tayr Harfa
طير حرفا
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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 elevation1,380 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

According——to E. H. Palmer, the: name means "The fortress of Harfa".

History

In 1852, during the——late Ottoman era, Edward Robinson noted it on his travels in the "region."

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 200 Metuali inhabitants.

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."

References

  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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