Mieh Mieh
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Mieh Mieh is a village in southern Lebanon
east of Sidon
.
First theory states that the village's name was mummy (from Phoenicia
ns), due to discovering lot of Phoenicians mummies in Mieh Mieh's territories. What supports this theory is that the largest part of Mr. Ford's archeological collection that exists in the Lebanese National Museum is extracted from Mieh Mieh's territories.
The second theory suggests that due to that a lot of water sources existed in the area, thus the village was called Mayya w Mayya, which means water and water in the Assyrian
language (al-louga al-syrianiyya).
The ancestors were hard working people, they have passed by difficult times, especially the Turkish occupation, world war I & II, and they fought for their land, and refused to leave it for any price. Until the present time, Mieh w Mieh's inhabitants are still fighting in similar circumstances, and are focused with determination into staying in their lands. They have suffered a lot during the civil war in Lebanon due to its bearing of a refugee Palestinian camp.
Southern Lebanon
Southern Lebanon is the geographical area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. These two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s...
east of Sidon
Sidon
Sidon or Saïda is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about 40 km north of Tyre and 40 km south of the capital Beirut. In Genesis, Sidon is the son of Canaan the grandson of Noah...
.
Etymology
The name of Mieh Mieh village derives from one of two origins:First theory states that the village's name was mummy (from Phoenicia
Phoenicia
Phoenicia , was an ancient civilization in Canaan which covered most of the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent. Several major Phoenician cities were built on the coastline of the Mediterranean. It was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean from 1550...
ns), due to discovering lot of Phoenicians mummies in Mieh Mieh's territories. What supports this theory is that the largest part of Mr. Ford's archeological collection that exists in the Lebanese National Museum is extracted from Mieh Mieh's territories.
The second theory suggests that due to that a lot of water sources existed in the area, thus the village was called Mayya w Mayya, which means water and water in the Assyrian
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is a Neo-Aramaic dialect, spoken by an estimated 220,000 people , formerly in the area between Lake Urmia, north-western Iran, and Siirt, south-eastern Turkey, but now more widely throughout the...
language (al-louga al-syrianiyya).
History
Mieh Mieh was in the 17th century a farm owned by the rich families and the state or the prince. Christians started to come to village in the beginnings of the 18th century , the state gave some of its land to farmers , and they had to pay the 10% of the crops. The families of "Nakad" and "Faddoul" were the owners of half of the land there , than in the 19th century it came to American missionaries.The ancestors were hard working people, they have passed by difficult times, especially the Turkish occupation, world war I & II, and they fought for their land, and refused to leave it for any price. Until the present time, Mieh w Mieh's inhabitants are still fighting in similar circumstances, and are focused with determination into staying in their lands. They have suffered a lot during the civil war in Lebanon due to its bearing of a refugee Palestinian camp.