Bazourieh
البازوريه Bazouriyeh | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 33°15′14″N 35°16′18″E / 33.25389°N 35.27167°E | |
Grid position | 175/295 PAL |
Country | Lebanon |
Governorate | South Lebanon Governorate |
District | Tyre District |
Founded by | Ibrahim Nehme |
Government | |
Elevation | 175 m (574 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 20,000 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Dialing code | +9617 |
Bazourieh ( Arabic: البازوريه) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "producing pot-herbs". [1]
In 1596, it was named as a village, al-Bazuri, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 22 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 4,243 akçe. [2] [3]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village built of stone, containing 300 Metawileh, situated on a ridge. One oil-press and one rock-cut cistern are the only antiquities. Water is obtained from a spring half a mile to the west." [4]
Bazouriyeh is the ancestral home of Hassan Nasrallah.