Bayt Lif

Bayt Lif بيت ليف
Village
Bayt Lif Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°8′1″N 35°19′58″E / 33.13361°N 35.33278°ECoordinates: 33°8′1″N 35°19′58″E / 33.13361°N 35.33278°E
Grid position	181/282 PAL
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Bint Jbeil District
Elevation	530 m (1,740 ft)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Dialing code	+961(7)

Bayt Lif (Arabic: بيت ليف‎‎) is a village in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the house of lif" (palm-fibre).^[1]

History

In 1852, Edward Robinson noted that the year before, a quantity of gold coin were found at Beit Lif, which was taken to Beirut and given to the Pasha. He further noted that the people were planting millet and tobacco.^[2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 80 Metuali inhabitants.^[3]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A village, built of stone, containing about 150 Moslems [..] situated on a hill-top, with a few olives and arable land. Two cisterns and a birket near supply the water."^[4]

References

1. Palmer, 1881, p. 68
2. Robinson and Smith, 1856, p. 62
3. Guérin, 1880, pp. 415-416
4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 201

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.
• 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.
• Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1856). Later Biblical Researches in Palestine and adjacent regions: A Journal of Travels in the year 1852. London: John Murray.

External links

• Beit Lif, Localiban
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons