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Aitit
عيتيت
Town
Aitit is located in Lebanon
Aitit
Aitit
Coordinates: 33°13′28″N 35°18′19″E / 33.22444°N 35.30528°E / 33.22444; 35.30528
Grid position178/292 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictTyre District
Area
 • Land2.76 sq mi (7.1 km2)
Elevation
950 ft (290 m)
Population
 (2011)[citation needed]
 • Total12,000
Time zoneGMT +3

Aitit[1] is a town located in Tyre District, South Lebanon, north of Qana. Aitit's residents are primarily Shiite Muslim.

History

In the early 1860s Ernest Renan noted: "Its antiquities are a stone with three circles, two with rays, in which are crosses (not of great age), a grotto, and beside it a good sarcophagus lid serving to support a press. Near Aitit is a rectangular cemetery, well preserved".[2]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "A village, built of stone, containing about 450 Metawileh, situated on hill-top, surrounded by olives and arable cultivation; water supplied from cisterns and a spring near."[3]

They further noted: "There are traces at this village of ancient remains. It is said by the natives that there was once a church here. There are broken pillars scattered about, stone lintels, three caves, and three olive-presses, with cisterns."[4] Aitit is mainly occupied by the family of the Mohsens, who have the majority of the village.

Attacks on Aitit

Due to it being close to Israel many attacks have been made against Hezbollah in Aitit. Most of these incidents were due to the 2006 Lebanon War.

References

  1. ^ From personal name, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 17
  2. ^ Renan, 1864, p. 641, as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 108
  3. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 90
  4. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 108

Bibliography

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Renan, E. (1864). Mission de Phénicie (in French). Paris: Imprimerie impériale.
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