Grid position 171/289 PAL Governorate South Governorate Time zone GMT +3 | Country Lebanon District Tyre Local time Monday 9:51 PM | |
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Weather 16°C, Wind S at 10 km/h, 82% Humidity | ||
Qlaileh, Leileh, (Arabic: القليلة ) is a village in the Tyre District in South Lebanon.
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Map of Qlaileh, Lebanon
Name
According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name Leileh comes from a female proper name; it also means “night”.
History
In 1875 Victor Guérin describes a ruin here, which he calls Kh. Kleileh. The upright of oil-presses, a winepress cut in the rock, with two compartments, one round and one square, and three broken sarcophagi, are all that remain here. A short distance south of this place he found another ruined hamlet, having a cistern cut in the rock, and an enormous millstone lying on the ground, called Kh. Ratieh.
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small well-built stone village, containing about 50 Moslems, surrounded by olives and arable ground. The water supply is from 'Ain Zaheiriyeh."