Ghanduriyah

Ghandouriyeh (Arabic: غندورية) is a Lebanese municipality located in the Bint Jbeil District, south of Froun. It was formerly known as Aidib.

Ghandouriyeh
غندورية
Village
Map showing the location of Yater within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Yater within Lebanon
Ghandouriyeh
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°16′20″N 35°25′52″E
Grid position190/297 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictBint Jbeil
Elevation
430 m (1,410 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Name

In the 1800s, the village was called Aidib, and E. H. Palmer wrote in 1881 that the name came from a local form connected with “much sand”.[1]

History

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Aidib as: "A small village, built of stone and mud, situated on the slope of a hill and surrounded by a few fig-trees and olives. It contains about ninety Metawileh, and is supplied with water from three rock-cut cisterns and a spring."[2]

During the 2006 Israeli offensive against Hizbollah Israeli Nahal commandos were airlifted into Ghanduriyah. A column of tanks attempting to reach them was ambushed in Wadi Salouqi. Eleven tanks were hit and seventeen Israeli soldiers killed, with fifty wounded.[3]

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 13
  2. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 202
  3. Hirst, David (2010) Beware of Small States. Lebanon, battleground of the Middle East. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-23741-8 pp.372-373

Bibliography
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