Rab El Thalathine

Rab El Thalathine
رب الثلاثين
Village
Map showing the location of Rab El Thalathine within Lebanon
Rab El Thalathine

Location within Lebanon

Coordinates: 33°14′55.78″N 35°28′59.08″E / 33.2488278°N 35.4830778°E / 33.2488278; 35.4830778Coordinates: 33°14′55.78″N 35°28′59.08″E / 33.2488278°N 35.4830778°E / 33.2488278; 35.4830778
Grid position 198/294 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate Nabatieh Governorate
District Marjeyoun District
Elevation 620 m (2,030 ft)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Dialing code +961

Rab El Thalathine (رب الثلاثين) is a village in the Marjeyoun District in southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name Rubb Thelâthin comes from rubb meaning syrup; and thelâthin meaning thirty.[1]

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found it to be a village inhabited by Metawileh. He further remarked that the mosque was constructed out of parts from an old church.[2]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "several lintels and cisterns."[3]

They further described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on a hill-top, surrounded by figs and arable land; water supply from cisterns and spring near, and a small birket.[4]

Modern era

During 2006 Lebanon War, on the 10 August, Israeli missiles killed a total of 5 women in the village, aged from 31 to 82 years of age. There were no indication that Hizbollah fighters were present at the time of the strikes.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 32
  2. ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 272
  3. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 138
  4. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 89-90
  5. ↑ HRW, 2007, pp. 142-143

Bibliography

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