Jumayjimah
جميجمة | |
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village | |
Coordinates: 33°12′23″N 35°26′27″E / 33.20639°N 35.44083°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.
According to E. H. Palmer, the name El Jumeijmeh comes from "The little sculls".[1]
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]