Safad El Battikh
صفد البطيخ | |
|---|---|
village | |
  Safad El Battikh Location within Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°12′00″N 35°25′58″E / 33.20000°N 35.43278°E | |
| Grid position | 190/289 PAL |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
| District | Bint Jbeil District |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.69 km2 (0.65 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 680 m (2,230 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Safad El Battikh (Arabic: صفد البطيخ)[2] is a village in Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of southern Lebanon, about 111 kilometres (69 mi) from Beirut. The village is situated in the north eastern outskirts of the town of Tebnine, in the heart of the Lebanese Shia Muslim community of Jabal Amel. The village is 680 metres (2,230 ft) above sea level.
- ^ a b Safad El Battikh, Localiban
- ^ Safed el Battîkh, Safed of the melons, according to Palmer 1881, p. 32 Palmer further notes: "The word battikh (melons) is used by the vulgar in the sense of nothing.' Thus if asked whether anything grows in a place which he knows to be barren, an Arab will reply ironically, 'melons'! This mistake has given rise to a statement in Robinson that a certain bare valley in the Tih is productive of 'melons'!"