Bayt Lif
بيت ليف
Village
Map showing the location of Bayt Lif within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Bayt Lif within Lebanon
Bayt Lif
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°8′1″N 35°19′58″E / 33.13361°N 35.33278°E / 33.13361; 35.33278
Grid position181/282 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictBint Jbeil District
Elevation
530 m (1,740 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+961(7)

Bayt Lif (Arabic: بيت ليف) is a village in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the house of lif" (palm-fibre).[1]

History

In 1852, Edward Robinson noted that the year before, a quantity of gold coin were found at Beit Lif, which was taken to Beirut and given to the Pasha. He further noted that the people were planting millet and tobacco.[2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 80 Metuali inhabitants.[3]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A village, built of stone, containing about 150 Moslems [..] situated on a hill-top, with a few olives and arable land. Two cisterns and a birket near supply the water."[4]

On 23 November 1997 a South Lebanon Army compound on the edge of the village came under artillery fire. Eight civilians were killed. Amal was believed to be responsible for the shelling.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 68
  2. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1856, p. 62
  3. ↑ Guérin, 1880, pp. 415-416
  4. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 201
  5. ↑ Middle East International No 564, 5 December 1997; Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Michael Jansen pp.13-14

Bibliography

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