Deir Aames

{{Infobox settlement | name = Deir Aames |other_name = | native_name =دير عامص | native_name_lang = ara | settlement_type = Municipality | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = Lebanon | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Map showing the location of Deir Aames within Lebanon | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Lebanon | coordinates = {{coord|33|12|03|N|35|20|10|E|region:LB_type:city|display=inline,title}} | grid_position = 181/289 PAL | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flagcountry|Lebanon}} | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = South Governorate | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Tyre District | established_title =  | established_date = | founder = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_min_m = | elevation_max_m = 400 | population_footnotes = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_note = | timezone1 = EET | utc_offset1 = +2 | timezone1_DST = EEST | utc_offset1_DST = +3 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = | area_code_type = Dialing code | area_code = +9617 | website = | footnotes = }} '''Deir Aames''' ({{langx|apc|دير عامص|Deir ʿĀmeṣ}}) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.

==Etymology== According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the convent of Amis."<ref>Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/20/mode/1up 20]</ref>

==History== In 1243, during the Crusader era, Deir Aames (called ''Derreme'', or ''Dairrhamos'') belonged to Venice.<ref> Röhricht, 1893, RHH pp. [https://archive.org/details/registaregnihier00rhuoft/page/289/mode/1up 289]-[https://archive.org/stream/registaregnihier00rhuoft#page/297/mode/1up 297], no. 1114; cited in Pringle, 1997, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC&pg=PA46 46]</ref>

===Ottoman era=== In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted: "'At Deir Amis there is a large basin of great stones, and a portion of wall which seems of Crusading times. At the church there is a drawing like the stone of Aitit. As the stone of Deir Amis is certainly Christian, so must also be that of Aitit."<ref>Renan, 1864, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UpxZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA640 640]; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/114/mode/1up 114]</ref>

In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to be inhabited by Metuali families.<ref>Guérin, 1880, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n427/mode/1up 387]-8</ref> He further noted: "numerous ruined houses, a fragment of a column in the interior of a small mosque, cut stones scattered over the ground, cisterns cut in the rock, a tank partly built and partly rock-cut. On an ancient lintel is carved a double cross in a circle."<ref>Guérin, 1880, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n427/mode/1up 387]-8; as cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/114/mode/1up 114]</ref>

In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, situated on a ridge, with olives and arable land around, containing about 100 Metawileh; water from cisterns."<ref> Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/91/mode/1up 91]</ref>

==Demographics== In 2014 Muslims made up 99.94% of registered voters in Deir Aames. 99.58% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.<ref>https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/دير-عامص/المذاهب/</ref>

==References== {{reflist|25em}}

==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|authorlink1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|authorlink2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=1}} *{{cite book|last=Guérin|first=V.|authorlink=Victor Guérin|title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog|volume=3: Galilee, pt. 2|year=1880|publisher= L'Imprimerie Nationale|location=Paris|language=French}} *{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|authorlink=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=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|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}} *{{cite book|title= Secular buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: an archaeological Gazetter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC| last= Pringle |first= D.|author-link=Denys Pringle|year=1997|ISBN=0521 46010 7|publisher=Cambridge University Press}} *{{cite book|last=Renan|first=E.|authorlink=Ernest Renan|title=Mission de Phénicie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UpxZAAAAYAAJ |year=1864|publisher= Imprimerie impériale |location=Paris|language=French}}

*{{cite book|last=Röhricht|first=R. |authorlink=Reinhold Röhricht|title= (RRH) Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI)|url=https://archive.org/details/regestaregnihie00rhgoog|year=1893|publisher=Libraria Academica Wageriana|location=Berlin|language=Latin}} {{refend}}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20180520122104/http://www.localiban.org/article3967.html Deir Aames], Localiban *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8365 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.02.jpg Wikimedia commons] {{Tyre District}}

Category:Populated places in Tyre District Category:Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon