Rab El Thalathine

Rab El Thalathine رب الثلاثين
Village
Rab El Thalathine Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°14′55.78″N 35°28′59.08″E / 33.2488278°N 35.4830778°ECoordinates: 33°14′55.78″N 35°28′59.08″E / 33.2488278°N 35.4830778°E
Grid position	198/294 PAL
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Marjeyoun District
Elevation	620 m (2,030 ft)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Dialing code	+961

Rab El Thalathine (رب الثلاثين) is a village in the Marjeyoun District in southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name Rubb Thelâthin comes from rubb meaning syrup; and thelâthin meaning thirty.^[1]

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found it to be a village inhabited by Metawileh. He further remarked that the mosque was constructed out of parts from an old church.^[2]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "several lintels and cisterns."^[3]

They further described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on a hill-top, surrounded by figs and arable land; water supply from cisterns and spring near, and a small birket.^[4]

Modern era

During 2006 Lebanon War, on the 10 August, Israeli missiles killed a total of 5 women in the village, aged from 31 to 82 years of age. There were no indication that Hizbollah fighters were present at the time of the strikes.^[5]

References

1. Palmer, 1881, p. 32
2. Guérin, 1880, p. 272
3. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 138
4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 89-90
5. HRW, 2007, pp. 142-143

Bibliography

• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
• HRW (2007). Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War. Human Rights Watch.
• 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.

External links

• Rabb Et Talatine, Localiban
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons