Chehour
Sign in to saveShehour, Shuhur, or Shhur (Arabic: شحور), is a municipality on the Litani River in the Tyre District of Southern Lebanon's South Governorate, some 95 kilometres to the south-west of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Shehour
- Settlement.native_name
- شحور
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.nickname
- Dar El Ezz (Arabic:دار العز)
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Lebanon
- Settlement.grid_position
- 115/151 L
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Lebanon
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tyre
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Meteric UK
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 7.8
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 320
- Settlement.population_total
- 1375
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 7000
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Lebanon
- Located in
- Tyre District
- Area
- 7.8
- Elevation
- 420
- Official website
- shohour.org
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- Chehour
- native label
- شحور
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Ottoman rule (1516-1918)
- French Mandate colonial rule (1920–1943)
- Demographics
- Educational establishment
- References
- Notable people
- Bibliography
- External links
Shehour, Shuhur, or Shhur (Arabic: شحور), is a municipality on the Litani River in the Tyre District of Southern Lebanon's South Governorate, some 95 kilometres to the south-west of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon.
==Etymology== E. H. Palmer wrote that the name Shuhûr meant "mud walls", or "conspicuous part".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chehour” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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