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Bazourieh

Bazourieh
البازوريه
Bazouriyeh
Municipality
Map showing the location of Bazouriyeh within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Bazouriyeh within Lebanon
Bazourieh
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°15′14″N 35°16′18″E / 33.25389°N 35.27167°E / 33.25389; 35.27167Coordinates: 33°15′14″N 35°16′18″E / 33.25389°N 35.27167°E / 33.25389; 35.27167
Grid position 175/295 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate South Lebanon Governorate
District Tyre District
Founded by Ali Diab
Government
Elevation 175 m (574 ft)
Population
 • Total 20,000
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Dialing code +9617

Bazourieh (Arabic: البازوريه‎‎) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "producing pot-herbs".

In 1596, it was named as a village, al-Bazuri, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 22 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 4,243 akçe.

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village built of stone, containing 300 Metawileh, situated on a ridge. One oil-press and one rock-cut cistern are the only antiquities. Water is obtained from a spring half a mile to the west."

Bazouriyeh is the ancestral home of Hassan Nasrallah.


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