Barish
Barish
Place in South Lebanon Governorate
Barish (Arabic: باريش) is a local authority in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
Barish
باريش Baarish | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: 33°16′23″N 35°21′14″E | |
| Grid position | 183/297 PAL |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | South Lebanon Governorate |
| District | Tyre District |
| Elevation | 350 m (1,150 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
E. H. Palmer wrote in 1881 that the name Barish meant "abounding in herbage".[2]
Anis Freiha said that the origin of the name is Syriac: “The house of the chief and the lieutenant colonel, and he mentioned that there is another possibility that it is from the Hebrew bero ?sh: cypress, and in the Aramaic bero ?sh, and in the Syriac.” [3]
Barish is located in the South Governorate, Tyre District. It is 350 m above sea level and 89 kilometers to the southwest of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, or about an hour and a half, and 16 km from the center of its district Tyre. Its land area is 404 hectares.[1][4] The number of its registered residents is 5000, expatriates 1500.[citation needed]
In 1875 Victor Guérin found that it had 300 Metawileh inhabitants.[5] He further noted: "It is surrounded by plantations of fig trees, olive trees and tobacco; some houses and a small mosque were partly built with ancient materials, either found on site or from Broukhai".[5]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Barish as: "A village, built of stone, containing about 200 Christians, situated on the top of a hill, surrounded by gardens, figs, and arable land ; water supplied from cisterns in the village and spring near."[6]
| Educational establishments | Barish (2005-2006) | Lebanon (2005–2006) |
|---|---|---|
| Number of Schools | 1 | 2788 |
| Public School | 1 | 1763 |
| Private School | 0 | 1025 |
| Students schooled in the public schools | 431 | 439905 |
| Students schooled in the private schools | 0 | 471409 |
- Daher, Al Cheick Saliman. Dictionary of Jabal Amel Village. Imam Al-Sadiq Foundation for Research in the Heritage of the Scholars of Jabal Amel. p. 73.
- Guérin, 1880, p. 261: A sept heures vingt-cinq minutes, je descends de cette colline vers l'ouest-sud-ouest, et, après avoir franchi un vallon, je monte à Beyrich, village qui compte une population de 3oo Métualis. Il est entouré de plantations de figuiers, d'oliviers et de tabac; quelques maisons et une petite mosquée ont été en partie construites avec des matériaux antiques, soit trouvés surplace, soit provenant de Broukhai.
- 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.
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
