Talloussah

 ( Populated Places In Marjayoun District ) 

Talloussah () is a municipality in the Marjayoun District in southern Lebanon.

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Etymology According to E. H. Palmer, the name comes from a personal name.Palmer, 1881, p. 33

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History The famed Second Scholarly Martyr of Shia Islam, Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili al-Ṭalluṣī, traces his ancestry to the Talloussah village.

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A small village, built of stone, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on hill-top, and surrounded by arable cultivation, water supplied from and birket."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 90

On 4 March 1992 one SLA member was killed and five wounded in an ambush on the Talloussah road. The following day the IDF raided the village, searching houses and detaining villagers. UNIFIL lodged a complaint with the Israelis after their observers were prevented from entering the village to inspect condition of residents.

During the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli warplanes killed three civilians belonging to the Mukhtar´s family in the village.HRW, 2007, p. 101

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Demographics As of 2010, the village had approximately 3,017 residents, though only 400 lived in the settlement year round, rising to about 1,100 in the summer months. Most of the remaining population had been displaced by the 2006 Lebanon War and had either settled in the southern suburbs of Beirut or were living abroad. It is unclear how many of the displaced would return in the coming years.

In 2014 Muslims made up 99.77% of registered voters in Talloussah. 98.79% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.

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Bibliography

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External links

• Talloussa, Localiban
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons

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