Haris, Lebanon
Haris
حاريص | |
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Municipality | |
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| Grid position | 185/286 PAL |
| Country | File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon |
| Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
| Elevation | 720 m (2,360 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Dialing code | +961 |
Haris (Arabic: حاريص) is a municipality, in the region of South Lebanon.
Etymology
[edit | edit source]According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "guarded".[1]
History
[edit | edit source]'Here there appear to be no vestiges of ancient constructions, except a circular cistern cut in the rock. Guérin suggests that it may be the site of the ancient Harosheth.' (Judges 4:2). "This identification is strengthened by the fact that the same word which occurs in the name Kir Haroseth, the modern Kerak, exists in the present local dialect in Moab, under the same form, Harith or Haris."[2]
Ottoman era
[edit | edit source]In the 1596 tax record, it was named as a village, Haris, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tebnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 102 households and 8 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, vegetable and fruit garden, orchard, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 3,124 akçe.[3][4]
In 1852, Edward Robinson noted the village on his travels in the region.[5] In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to contain 200 Metawileh.[6]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, containing about 100 [..] Metawileh, situated on hill-top, with vineyards, figs, and arable cultivation. There is a birket and many cisterns at the village, and a spring near."[7]
Modern era
[edit | edit source]On 24 July 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war, Israeli warplanes killed 12 people in the village, in two different strikes. The first strike killed 4 Hezbollah fighters, while the second strike demolished a house 100 meters away, killing 8 civilians, aged between 16 and 77 years.[8]
In November 2006, Italian UNIFIL soldiers were accused of theft in a military store in this village.[9]
Demographics
[edit | edit source]In 2014 Muslims made up 99.39% of registered voters in Haris. 98.94% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[10]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 21
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 96, 116
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 181
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2016-10-10 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1856, p. 61
- ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 386-387; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 94
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 94
- ^ HRW, 2007, p. 112
- ^ Burglary Attempt by Italian Peacekeepers Foiled in the South!?, Nov 06, 2006, Naharnet
- ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/بنت-جبيل/حاريص/المذاهب/ [bare URL]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Hariss, Localiban
