Jibbain

Jibbain (Arabic: الجبين‎) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

Jibbain

الجبين

Jebbayn, Jebbine
Jibbain
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°7′23″N 35°14′0″E
Grid position172/280 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Lebanon Governorate
DistrictTyre District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the two pits".[1]

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, Jibin, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 7 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats, beehives; in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 2,177 akçe.[2][3]

In 1875 Victor Guérin noted here "a few Metawileh families", who inhabited an ancient locality.[4]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about seventy Metawileh; it is situated on a hill, with figs, olives, and arable land around. There are three cisterns for water."[5] They further noted a ruined, rock-cut birket.[6]

Modern era

On August 3 or 4, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli helicopter strikes killed 4 Hezbollah operatives in an uninhabited valley some 900 meters from Jibbain. At the same time they fired on the house nearest, killing 4 civilians, aged 42 to 81 years of age.[7]

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References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 43
  2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180
  3. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  4. Guérin, 1880, p. 130
  5. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 151
  6. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 169
  7. HRW, 2007, pp. 129-130

Bibliography
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • HRW (2007). Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War. Human Rights Watch.
  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
  • 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.
  • Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
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