Jennata

Jennata جناتا Jannata
Road in Jennata
Jennata Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°17′10″N 35°19′10″E / 33.28611°N 35.31944°ECoordinates: 33°17′10″N 35°19′10″E / 33.28611°N 35.31944°E
Grid position	110/150 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	South Lebanon Governorate
District	Tyre District
Elevation	250 m (820 ft)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Jennata (Arabic: جناتا ‎‎) is a local authority in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name comes from Jennat, garden.^[1]

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village, (which he called Djennateh), to have 60 Metawileh inhabitants.^[2] He further noted: "The village contains a number of ruined houses. A little mosque is partly built of ancient materials."^[3]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small village of stone and mud, containing about 100 Moslems. […] It lies low, on arable land. The water is supplied by two wells in the village."^[4]

References

1. Palmer, 1881, p. 22
2. Guérin, 1880, p. 256
3. Guérin, 1880, p. 256, as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 116
4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 92

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.

External links

• Jennata, Localiban
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons