Summary
Deir Aames (Arabic: ديرعامص) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
Deir Aames
ديرعامص | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
  Deir Aames Location within Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°12′03″N 35°20′10″E / 33.20083°N 35.33611°E | |
| Grid position | 181/289 PAL |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | South Lebanon Governorate |
| District | Tyre District |
| Highest elevation | 400 m (1,300 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Dialing code | +9617 |
Name edit
According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the convent of Amis."[1]
History edit
In 1243, during the Crusader era, Deir Aames (called Derreme, or Dairrhamos) belonged to Venice.[2]
Ottoman era edit
In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted: "'At Deir Amis there is a large basin of great stones, and a portion of wall which seems of Crusading times. At the church there is a drawing like the stone of Aitit. As the stone of Deir Amis is certainly Christian, so must also be that of Aitit."[3]
In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by Metuali families.[4] He further noted: "numerous ruined houses, a fragment of a column in the interior of a small mosque, cut stones scattered over the ground, cisterns cut in the rock, a tank partly built and partly rock-cut. On an ancient lintel is carved a double cross in a circle."[5]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on a ridge, with olives and arable land around, containing about 100 Metawileh; water from cisterns."[6]
References edit
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 20
- ^ Röhricht, 1893, RHH pp. 289-297, no. 1114; cited in Pringle, 1997, p. 46
- ^ Renan, 1864, p. 640; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 114
- ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 387-8
- ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 387-8; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 114
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 91
Bibliography edit
- 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. ISBN 0521 46010 7.
- Renan, E. (1864). Mission de Phénicie (in French). Paris: Imprimerie impériale.
- Röhricht, R. (1893). (RRH) Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI) (in Latin). Berlin: Libraria Academica Wageriana.
External links edit
- Deir Aames, Localiban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons