Borj Ech Chemali

Borj Ech Chemali
برج الشمالي
Village
Borj Ech Chemali
Coordinates: 33°15′45″N 35°14′20″E / 33.26250°N 35.23889°E / 33.26250; 35.23889
Grid position 172/296 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate South Governorate
District Tyre
Time zone GMT +3

Borj Ech Chemali (Arabic: برج الشمالي) is a village in the Tyre District in South Lebanon, located just east of Tyre.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name Burj esh Shemâly means "the northern tower".[1]

History

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A large village built of stone, containing about 300 Metawileh, placed on a low ridge, with figs, olives, and arable land around. There are two good springs near.[2]

They further noted that it was "a village with a similar tower of drafted masonry (as that of Borj Rahal). The hill is crowned by a stronghold, the vaults of which, slightly ogival, do not appear older than the Crusaders, but it was constructed of older blocks, some in drafted masonry and others completely smoothed. About a mile to the south-west of this hill is a subterranean series of tombs, each containing several ranges of loculi, which was explored by Renan."[3]

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 4
  2. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 48
  3. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 58

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