Yarine

Yarine يارين
Village
Yarine
Coordinates:33°06′23″N35°14′01″E
Grid position	172/279PAL
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	South Governorate
District	Tyre
Area
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation	1,380 ft (420 m)
Population (2015)
• Total	2,115
Time zone	GMT +3

Yarine(Arabic:يارين) is a village in theTyre Districtin SouthLebanon,located 19 kilometres south ofTyre.The people of the village areSunni Muslims.

Name

According toE. H. Palmerin 1881, the nameKhŭrbet Yarincomes from "the ruin of Yârîn, p.n."

History

There are remains of aByzantinechurch SE of the village site, and a "Tower or fortlet on hill top surrounded by enclosure wall built of largeashlarmasonry ".

Ottoman era

In 1875,Victor Guérinfound here 'On the east extends a sort of avenue, formerly bordered by important buildings. One remarks especially the remains of a great edifice measuring forty-five paces in length from west to east by twenty-two in breadth from north to south. It was built of finely cut stones lying one upon the other with cement, and terminated at the east in threeapses,the largest of which, that in the centre, is still partly upright. It was once an ancientchurchdivided into threenavesby monolithic columns, some undulated fragments of which are lying on the ground...... Small cubes of mosaic in red, white, and black still adhere to the soil in several places.' He further noted: "A largecisternlocated near this monument to the west was built with great care. The ruins of Yarin are now inhabited by only three or four Bedouin families, who graze their animals or cultivate a few plots of land. "

In 1881, thePEF'sSurvey of Western Palestine(SWP)found here: “Large ruin; some small-sized drafted stones with bosses left rough, two stones bearing Latin crosses; remains of modern walls and heaps of stones; two rock-cut tombs with square-headed kokim;loculi.In the more eastern one a figure of a human head is roughly cut out of the rock in the first chamber of the tomb, out of which two square loculi open.”

Lebanese Civil War

In July 1977 during theLebanese Civil War,Phalangistforces led byElie Hobeikacarried out a massacre ofPalestiniansin the village, during which some 30 civilians were shot.

References

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Bibliography

• Conder, C.R.;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, V.(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.
• Pringle, D.(1997).Secular buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: an archaeological Gazetter.Cambridge University Press.ISBN0521 46010 7.

External links

• Yarine,Localiban
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3:IAA,Wikimedia commons