Deir Aames (Template:Lang-ar) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
Deir Aames
دير عامس | |
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Municipality | |
  Deir Aames Location within Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°12′03″N 35°20′10″E / 33.20083°N 35.33611°E | |
| Grid position | 181/289 PAL |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | South Lebanon Governorate |
| District | Tyre District |
| Highest elevation | 400 m (1,300 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Dialing code | +9617 |
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
Bibliography
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Renan, Ernest (1864). Mission de Phénicie (in French). Paris: Imprimerie impériale.
External links
- Deir Aames, Localiban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
