Jumayjimah

Jumayjimah جميجمة
village
Jumayjimah Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°12′23″N 35°26′27″E
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".

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."

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.

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 99,75% of registered voters in Jumayjimah. 98,68% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.

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.

External links

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