Aishiya
Sign in to saveAl-Aaishiyah () is a municipality in the Jezzine District in Southern Lebanon. It is located 82 kilometers far from Beirut and on an altitude of 750 meters. The village is accessible by the roads of Nabatieh-Jezzine and Marjayoun-Jezzine. Its population is approximately 4000 people as of 2008.
In the Vinony graph
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 60 inbound references to Aishiya, and connects out to Jezzine District, Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon and Syria.
It sits within the topics Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon, Populated places in Jezzine District and Populated places in the Israeli security zone 1985–2000.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Weather now
cached 2264h ago7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Lebanon
- Located in
- Jezzine District
- Elevation
- 750
Show 1 more fact
- Commons category
- Aishiya
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Religious sites
- Agriculture and nature
- History
- Ancient period
- Israeli occupation
- 1976–1977 Aishiyeh massacres
- Present day
- Demographics
- References
- External links
Al-Aaishiyah () is a municipality in the Jezzine District in Southern Lebanon. It is located 82 kilometers far from Beirut and on an altitude of 750 meters. The village is accessible by the roads of Nabatieh-Jezzine and Marjayoun-Jezzine. Its population is approximately 4000 people as of 2008.
==Etymology== The name "aïchiye" (العيشية ) goes back to the word "live", which is the symbol of comfortable living and the surrounding pine trees and nature.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aishiya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations
Available in 7 languages
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0