Yaroun

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Yaroun
يارون
City
Map showing the location of Yaroun within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Yaroun within Lebanon
Yaroun
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°05′N 35°25′E / 33.083°N 35.417°E / 33.083; 35.417Coordinates: 33°05′N 35°25′E / 33.083°N 35.417°E / 33.083; 35.417
Grid position189/276 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictBint Jbeil District
Highest elevation
800 m (2,600 ft)
Lowest elevation
750 m (2,460 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+961

Yaroun (also spelled Yarun; Arabic: يارون‎)[1] is a Lebanese village located in the Caza of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatieh Governorate in Lebanon.

Geography[]

Yaroun occupies a hill with elevation ranging from 750 to 900 meters above sea level. The main agricultural products of Yaroun are olives, wheat, and tobacco.

Yaroun lies on the border with Israel. It overlooks Saliha and Kafr Bir'im in the Israeli part of the border.

History[]

In 1596, it was named as a village, Yarun an-Nasara, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 37 Muslim households and 20 Muslim bachelors, and 39 Christian households and 11 Christian bachelors. The villagers paid taxes on a number of crops, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 7,247 akçe.[2][3]

In 1674, western travellers saw remains of a monastery and church near by, with fragments from many columns.[4]

In 1781 Nasif al-Nassar was killed here by Jazzar Pasha when their two armies met.[5]

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted it as "a large village".[4] Ernest Renan visited Yaroun during his mission to Lebanon and described what he found in his book Mission de Phénicie (1865-1874). He found many antiquities at Yaroun.[6]

On 31 December 1863, Louis Félicien de Saulcy, the French orientalist and archaeologist left Jish and arrived in Yaroun, and despite the heavy rain on that day, he examined the ruins of a temple, with a huge sarcophagi and sepulchral excavations cut into the rock, and a square well few meters deep, deducing that Yaroun was the Biblical town of Iaraoun, one of the cities of the Nephatli tribe mentioned in the Book of Joshua (xiv. 38).[7]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: “A stone village, containing about 200 Metawileh and 200 Christians ; a Christian chapel in the village. The village is situated on the edge of a plain, with vineyards and arable land; to the west rises a basalt-top called el Burj, full of cisterns, and supposed to be the site of an ancient castle ; there are large stones strewn about ; there are three large birkets and many cisterns to supply water; one of the birkets is ruined."[8]

SWP also found here the remains of an ancient Church, with Greek inscriptions.[9]

By the 1945 statistics the population was counted with Saliha and Maroun al-Ras, and totalled 1070 Muslims[10] with 11,735 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 7,401 dunams were allocated to cereals, 422 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards,[12] while 58 dunams were built-up (urban) area.[13]

Religion[]

Yaroun is divided between Shia Muslims and catholic christians.

In 2009, there were 365 members of the Saint-Georges parish of the Melkite Church in the village.[14]

Social life[]

While the majority of Yarounis visit Yaroun for the summer, approximately 60% to 70% of Yaroun natives reside outside of Lebanon, and include countries such as Australia, USA, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, and South Africa. Due to the devastation of the Israeli occupancy, and various wars in the last 40 years, economic development has been slow in the area, resulting in younger generation Yarounis to seek higher education opportunities in other countries. However, during the summer, many families return to the region, and spend time with families left behind.

Modern era[]

In July 2006, Yaroun, like many other villages that string Lebanon's southern border, such as Ain Ebel, Debel, Qaouzah, and Rmaich, were caught by the 2006 Lebanon War between Hezbollah and the Israeli army.[15]

On the 23 July, Israeli strikes killed 5 civilians in Yaroun, the victims were aged between 6 months and 75 years old.[16]

Notable persons[]

  • Eid Hourany (1940 – 2008), French and Lebanese nuclear physicist
  • Youssef Hourany (1931 – 2019), Lebanese writer, archeologist and historian
  • Dominique Hourani (born 1985), Lebanese recording artist, actress, beauty queen, and former model
  • Mohamad Kdouh (born 1997), Lebanese footballer[17]

References[]

  1. ^ From personal name, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 104
  2. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 179.
  3. ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 371
  5. ^ Blanford, 2011, pp. 12-13
  6. ^ Renan, 1864, pp. 680-2
  7. ^ Saulcy de, Louis Félicien, Voyage en Terre Sainte, Volume 2, Nabu Press (April 1, 2010), pages 275-276
  8. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 203
  9. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 258-260
  10. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
  11. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71
  12. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 121
  13. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 171
  14. ^ "Territory and statistics". Eparchy Greek Melkite Catholic of Tyre. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  15. ^ USATODAY.com - Archbishop tells church to stay in Lebanon: 'You'll make it'
  16. ^ HRW, 2007, pp. 109
  17. ^ "Global Sports Archive". globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 2020-11-23.

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