Rmaich
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Rmeish رميش |
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Rmeish from the mountains
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 Rmeish
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| Coordinates: 33°4′45″N 35°22′8″E / 33.07917°N 35.36889°ECoordinates: 33°4′45″N 35°22′8″E / 33.07917°N 35.36889°E | |
| Country |
 Lebanon
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| Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
| District | Bint Jbeil District |
| Elevation | 570 m (1,870 ft) |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Dialing code | +961 |
Rmeish (Arabic: [رميش] ) is located in south Lebanon, Caza Beint Jbeil near the Lebanese-Israeli border covering an area of 20 km2. The ruins found in the village indicate that the area was occupied by the Romans and the Crusaders at some stage in history.
The name Rmiesh means "scanty herbage" according to according E. H. Palmer.
The first families to live in Rmeish came from the areas of Kesourwan especially from the Khazen and Chidiac families. At the same time some other Christian families moved to the village after the Shiite family Al Asaad offered them protection.
The main families in Rmeish are:
In 1299, Rmeish was directly under Mamluk rule.
Rmeish was under Ottoman rule until 1920. Rmeish was involved in many wars and battles through the history. The most important ones are:
Ahmad Basha burned down the church including all the records that were kept inside. The people of Rmeish refused to go back to their village until Ahmad Basha died in 1804 when they went back and rebuilt their church and village.
When the Ottoman Empire entered the war, they forced everyone who’s age is between 18 and 60 to fight in the Turkish army. People from Rmeish were forced to fight in Bulgaria, Istanbul and the Suez Canal in Egypt. Between 20 to 30 never came back from the war and no one knew anything about them till today.
In 1875 Victor Guérin found Rmaich to be inhabited by Maronites.
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Rumeish: "A stone and mud village, containing about 500 Christians ; there is a Christian church; it is situated in the plain, with two large birkets and cisterns, surrounded by arable land and having some vineyards."
A glittering cloud of locusts so large it blocked out the sun as it approached descended upon the farms destroying all wheat crops and stripping the prairie bare of all vegetation. The famine decreased the number of the people living in Rmeish to about 450.
A petition was sent by all villages in south Lebanon to the Reconciliation Conference in Paris in 1919 asking for Rmeish and other villages to be included within Lebanon. The following is the petition:
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