Aalma ech Chaab


Aalma ech Chaab is a village in the Tyre District, in Southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, ’Alma means "a coat of mail"; while Shảub means "mountain spurs".

History

In 1875, during the late Ottoman era, Victor Guérin found here a village with 350 inhabitants, mostly Greek Orthodox, or Maronite.
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it: “A large Christian village, containing about 500 inhabitants. The houses are clean and well built. There are two chapels, and the place seems increasing in size. It is situated on a ridge, with figs, olives, and pomegranates and arable land around.
To the east and north the land is covered with brushwood. There is a spring within reach, and about thirty rock-cut cisterns in the village.”