Jumayjimah

Village in Nabatieh

Jumayjimah جميجمة
village
33°12′23″N 35°26′27″E / 33.20639°N 35.44083°E / 33.20639; 35.44083
Grid position	191/290 PAL
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh
District	Bint Jbeil
Elevation	690 m (2,260 ft)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code	+961

Jumayjimah (Arabic: جميجمة) is a village in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon, located north-east of Tebnine.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name El Jumeijmeh comes from "The little sculls".^[1]

History

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small village of stone and mud, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on hill-top, with a few olives and figs around. Water supply from cisterns."^[2]

On 29 September 1992, following an attack on a South Lebanon Army outpost in Rachaf, Hizbullah fighters shot their way through a Unifil checkpoint at Jumayjimah. One Irish soldier was killed, bring the total number of Unifil soldiers killed to 187, 33 of them from Ireland.^[3]

References

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 23
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 94-95
^ Middle East International No 435, 9 October 1992, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Gerald Butt p.11

Bibliography

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