Hisah
{{About|the Lebanese village|the coastal town in Libya|Al Hayshah}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Hisah
| native_name = الحيصة
| native_name_lang = ara
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = (47hisah).JPG
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| image_caption = River by Hisah
| pushpin_map = Lebanon
| pushpin_label_position = left
| pushpin_map_alt = Map showing the location of Hisah within Lebanon
| pushpin_map_caption = Location within Lebanon
| coordinates = {{coord|34|35|47|N|36|3|17|E|region:LB_type:city|display=inline,title}}
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flagcountry|Lebanon}}
| subdivision_type1 = Governorate
| subdivision_name1 = Akkar
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Akkar
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| area_total_km2 = 2.10
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| elevation_m = 30
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| population_total = 1756 eligible voters
| population_as_of = 2009
| population_density_km2 = auto
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| timezone1 = EET
| utc_offset1 = +2
| timezone1_DST = EEST
| utc_offset1_DST = +3
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| area_code = +961
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Hisah ({{langx|ar|الحيصة}}), also spelled Hokr el Haïssa,{{GEOnet2|32FA883CCDF43774E0440003BA962ED3|Hokr el Haïssa (Approved)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Haysa, Hayssa, El Haïssa or Hisa, is a northern Lebanese village in the Akkar Governorate, close to the Syrian border. It is mostly inhabited by Alawites{{Cite news|author=Staff|date=31 July 2008|title=Lebanon: Displaced families struggle on both sides of sectarian divide|newspaper=RefWorld|publisher=United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4896c47526.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019062337/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4896c47526.html|archivedate=19 October 2012|url-status=live}}Mohammed Ali Hussein, mayor of Hisa, estimates around 500 Allawi families have had their homes damaged and perhaps half of all Jebel Mohsen’s 50,000 residents have been displaced. {{Cite news|author1=Macleod, Hugh |author2=Aysha, Rami|title=A perfect storm in Tripoli|date=17 August 2008|newspaper=The Sunday Herald|url=http://www.hughmacleod.co.uk/stormtripoli.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100802044634/http://www.hughmacleod.co.uk/stormtripoli.htm|archivedate=2 August 2010|url-status=dead}} and Sunni Muslims.{{cite web|title=Municipal and ikhtiyariah elections in Northern Lebanon |url=http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/iiMonthly-Municip-Mar10-E92.pdf |publisher=The Monthly |accessdate=4 November 2016 |page=16, 21 |date=March 2010 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603040803/http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/iiMonthly-Municip-Mar10-E92.pdf |archivedate=3 June 2016 }}
History
The history of the village goes back to the days of the Banu Hilal tribe, and it is named after the horse of Abu-Zayd al-Hilali.{{Citation|title=JPRS Report: Near East & South Asia: Lebanon (JPRS-NEA-91-051)|date=21 August 1991|publisher=Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS), United States Government|url=http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a336222.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131081323/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a336222.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=January 31, 2013}}
In the late 1620s or early 1630s, the Druze strongman of and Ottoman governor Fakhr al-Din II planted a large grove of mulberry trees in Hisah, as well as Tripoli, as part of his efforts to stimulate the burgeoning silk industry of Mount Lebanon.{{cite book |last1=Abu-Husayn |first1=Abdul-Rahim |authorlink=Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn |title=Provincial Leaderships in Syria, 1575–1650 |date=1985 |publisher=American University of Beirut |location=Beirut |isbn=978-0-8156-6072-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1ttAAAAMAAJ |oclc=242675094 |pages=49 (note 97)}}
In 1838, Eli Smith noted the village, whose inhabitants were Alawites, located west of esh-Sheikh Mohammed.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/183/mode/1up 183]
During the 2006 Lebanon War, a bridge in the village was bombed by Israeli planes, leaving up to 12 people dead.Meanwhile, up to 12 people are reported to have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a bridge in Balenat al-Hissa in northern Lebanon, near the Syrian border. {{Cite news|author=Staff|title=Olmert approves widening of offensive|date=12 August 2006|newspaper=RTÉ News|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0811/lebanon.html}}{{Cite news|author=Shams, Doha|date=3 January 2013|title=A World of Outsiders in Lebanon's Akkar|newspaper=Al-Akhbar|location=Beirut, Lebanon|url=http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/world-outsiders-lebanons-akkar|access-date=3 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083420/http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/world-outsiders-lebanons-akkar|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 War |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2007/09/05/why-they-died/civilian-casualties-lebanon-during-2006-war |publisher=Human Rights Watch |language=en |date=5 September 2007}}
Demographics
In 2014, Muslims made up 99.23% of registered voters in Hisah. 50.61% of the voters were Alawites and 47.20% were Sunni Muslims.https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الشمال/عكار/الحيصا/المذاهب/
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|authorlink1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|authorlink2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft |title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838| location=Boston|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|volume=3}}
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External links
- [http://www.localiban.org/article4706.html Hayssa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506181226/http://www.localiban.org/article4706.html |date=2016-05-06 }}, Localiban
{{Akkar District}}
{{Districts of Lebanon}}
Category:Populated places in Akkar District
Category:Alawite communities in Lebanon
Category:Sunni Muslim communities in Lebanon
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