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Name According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the little castle".^[1]
In 1870 Victor Guérin found the village to have 400 Maronite inhabitants.^[2]
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, containing about 1 50 Christians ; it contains a church, and is situated on a ridge, with vineyards, olives, figs, and arable land around ; it has a birket and spring near."^[3] Note that a birket is a pool of water.

Bibliography

1- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.

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Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine

(in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L’Imprimerie Nationale.

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The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer

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Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund

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