E. H. Palmer wrote in 1881 that the name Barish meant "abounding in herbage".[2]
Anis Freiha said that the origin of the name is Syriac: “The house of the chief and the lieutenant colonel, and he mentioned that there is another possibility that it is from the Hebrew bero ?sh: cypress, and in the Aramaic bero ?sh, and in the Syriac.” [3]
Location
Barish is located in the South Governorate, Tyre District. It is 350 m above sea level and 89 kilometers to the southwest of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, or about an hour and a half, and 16 km from the center of its district Tyre. Its land area is 404 hectares.[1][4] The number of its registered residents is 5000, expatriates 1500.[citation needed]
History
In 1875 Victor Guérin found that it had 300 Metawileh inhabitants.[5] He further noted: "It is surrounded by plantations of fig trees, olive trees and tobacco; some houses and a small mosque were partly built with ancient materials, either found on site or from Broukhai".[5]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Barish as: "A village, built of stone, containing about 200 Christians, situated on the top of a hill, surrounded by gardens, figs, and arable land ; water supplied from cisterns in the village and spring near."[6]
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.42% of registered voters in Barish. 98.26% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[7]
Education
Educational establishments
Barish (2005-2006)
Lebanon (2005–2006)
Number of Schools
1
2788
Public School
1
1763
Private School
0
1025
Students schooled in the public schools
431
439905
Students schooled in the private schools
0
471409
References
^ ab"Barish". www.localiban.org. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
^Daher, Al Cheick Saliman. Dictionary of Jabal Amel Village. Imam Al-Sadiq Foundation for Research in the Heritage of the Scholars of Jabal Amel. p. 73.
^ abGuérin, 1880, p. 261: A sept heures vingt-cinq minutes, je descends de cette colline vers l'ouest-sud-ouest, et, après avoir franchi un vallon, je monte à Beyrich, village qui compte une population de 3oo Métualis. Il est entouré de plantations de figuiers, d'oliviers et de tabac; quelques maisons et une petite mosquée ont été en partie construites avec des matériaux antiques, soit trouvés surplace, soit provenant de Broukhai.
