Siddikine

Siddikine
صديقين
Village
Map showing the location of Siddikine within Lebanon
Siddikine

Location within Lebanon

Coordinates: 33°11′24″N 35°18′37″E / 33.19000°N 35.31028°E / 33.19000; 35.31028Coordinates: 33°11′24″N 35°18′37″E / 33.19000°N 35.31028°E / 33.19000; 35.31028
Grid position 179/288 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate South Lebanon Governorate
District Tyre District
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Dialing code +9617

Siddikine (Arabic: صديقين) is a village in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

Origin of name

E. H. Palmer wrote that the name means "the truthful ones".[1]

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, Sidiqin, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 46 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 10,752 akçe.[2][3]

In 1875, Victor Guérin noted: "Here are what appears to be the remains of an ancient synagogue. Its direction is from south to north, which is the general direction of the ancient synagogues of Palestine; and, besides, here I remarked two monolithic pillars, cut one side in pilaster fashion, and rounded on the other side like a half column. This kind of pillar generally terminates the end of the range of columns in these synagogues."[4]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, with many ruined houses; contains about 150 Metawileh; surrounded by figs, gardens, and arable land. Water from cisterns and 'Ain el Tuzeh."[5]

They further noted: "There are remains of an early Christian site at this village; some well-dressed stones scattered about with crosses on them: There are also rock-cut cisterns, tombs, and stone olive and wine presses. The site of the ancient place was a little to the north of the present village."[6]

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 32
  2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 179
  3. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  4. Guérin, 1880, p. 389; as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 139
  5. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 94
  6. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 138

Bibliography

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