Maarakeh

Maarakeh
معركة
Village
Maarakeh
Coordinates: 33°16′N 35°18′E / 33.267°N 35.300°E / 33.267; 35.300Coordinates: 33°16′N 35°18′E / 33.267°N 35.300°E / 33.267; 35.300
Grid position 179/297 PAL
Country Lebanon
Governorate South Governorate
District Tyre
Time zone +2
  Summer (DST) +3 (UTC)

Marrakech (Arabic: معركة) is an ancient village in Tyre District, in Lebanon.

Geography

The Municipality of Maarakeh is located in the Kaza of Tyre (sour) one of Mohafazah of South Lebanon kazas (districts). Mohafazah of South Lebanon is one of the eight mohafazats (governorates) of Lebanon. It is 90 kilometers (55.9 mi) away from Beyrouth (Beirut) the capital of Lebanon. Its elevation is 270 meters (1) (886 ft - 295 yd) above sea level. Maarakeh surface stretches for 2000 hectares (20 km² - 7.7 mi²)(2).

Name

E. H. Palmer wrote that the name Mảrakeh meant "The battle field".[1]

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, al-Ma'raka, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 119 households and 3 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, fruit trees, cotton, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 13,350 akçe.[2][3]

In 1875 Victor Guérin found that it had 700 Metawileh inhabitants.[4] He further noted: "Here are uprights and lintels of door with cut stones, apparently ancient; and in a small mosque, built of regular blocks probably taken from an old church, are several fragments of monolithic columns.'"[5]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A village, built of stone, containing about 400 Metawileh, on flat top of high ground, surrounded by gardens, olives, figs, palms, and arable land. There is a spring and five cisterns."[6]

Educational establishments

Educational establishments Maarakeh (2005-2006) Lebanon (2005–2006)
Number of Schools 5 2788
Public School 3 1763
Private School 2 1025
Students schooled in the public schools 1596 439905
Students schooled in the private schools 271 471409

Health Institutions

There are no health institution in the municipality.

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 29
  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. 262
  5. Guérin, 1880, p. 262; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 136
  6. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 93

Bibliography

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