Tayr Harfa

Tayr Harfa
طير حرفا
Village
Tayr Harfa
Coordinates: 33°7′41.5″N 35°12′44.2″E / 33.128194°N 35.212278°E / 33.128194; 35.212278
Grid position 170/281 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate South Governorate
District Tyre
Highest elevation 1,380 ft (420 m)
Time zone GMT +3

Tayr Harfa (Arabic: طير حرفا ) is a village in Tyre District in Southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "The fortress of Harfa".[1]

History

In 1852, during the late Ottoman era, Edward Robinson noted it on his travels in the region.[2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 200 Metuali inhabitants.[3]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A stone and mud village, containing about 200 Moslems, on a hill, with olives, figs, and arable land, and waste ground covered with brushwood. Water from cisterns."[4]

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 55
  2. Robinson and Smith, 1856, p. 62
  3. Guérin, 1880, pp. 129-130
  4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 151

Bibliography

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