Deir Aames

Deir Aames
دير عامس
Municipality
Map showing the location of Deir Aames within Lebanon
Deir Aames

Location within Lebanon

Coordinates: 33°12′03″N 35°20′10″E / 33.20083°N 35.33611°E / 33.20083; 35.33611Coordinates: 33°12′03″N 35°20′10″E / 33.20083°N 35.33611°E / 33.20083; 35.33611
Grid position 181/289 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate South Lebanon Governorate
District Tyre District
Highest elevation 400 m (1,300 ft)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Dialing code +9617

Deir Aames (Arabic: دير عامس ) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the convent of Amis."[1]

History

In the early 1860s Ernest Renan noted: "'At Deir Amis there is a large basin of great stones, and a portion of wall which seems of Crusading times. At the church there is a drawing like the stone of Aitit. As the stone of Deir Amis is certainly Christian, so must also be that of Aitit."[2]

In 1875 Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by Metuali families.[3] He further noted: "numerous ruined houses, a fragment of a column in the interior of a small mosque, cut stones scattered over the ground, cisterns cut in the rock, a tank partly built and partly rock-cut. On an ancient lintel is carved a double cross in a circle."[4]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on a ridge, with olives and arable land around, containing about 100 Metawileh; water from cisterns."[5]

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 20
  2. Renan, 1864, p. 640; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 114
  3. Guérin, 1880, pp. 387-8
  4. Guérin, 1880, pp. 387-8; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 114
  5. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p

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