Aaitit

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title: "Aaitit" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-tyre-district", "shia-muslim-communities-in-lebanon"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-tyre-district" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaitit" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Aaitit
other_name	'Aytit
native_name	عيتيت
settlement_type	Municipality
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subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Lebanon
subdivision_type1	Governorate
subdivision_name1	South Governorate
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Tyre District
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parts
p2
leader_name
established_title
unit_pref	Imperial
area_total_km2
area_land_km2
area_land_sq_mi	2.76
elevation_footnotes	tags--
elevation_m	290
population_as_of	2011
population_footnotes
population_total	12,000
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timezone	GMT +3
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grid_position	178/292 PAL
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Aaitit (Arabic: عيتيت) is a municipality located in Tyre District, South Lebanon, north of Qana.

History

In the early 1860s Ernest Renan noted: "Its antiquities are a stone with three circles, two with rays, in which are crosses (not of great age), a grotto, and beside it a good sarcophagus lid serving to support a press. Near Aitit is a rectangular cemetery, well preserved".

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "A village, built of stone, containing about 450 Metawileh, situated on hill-top, surrounded by olives and arable cultivation; water supplied from cisterns and a spring near."

They further noted: "There are traces at this village of ancient remains. It is said by the natives that there was once a church here. There are broken pillars scattered about, stone lintels, three caves, and three olive-presses, with cisterns." Aitit is mainly occupied by the family of the Mohsens, who have the majority of the village.

Modern era

Due to it being close to Israel many attacks have been made against Hezbollah in Aaitit. Most of these incidents were due to the 2006 Lebanon War.

Demographics

As of 2010, Aaitit had a year round population of about 2,500, though it rose to 3,000 in the summers. Some of the population had migrated to Paraguay and Brazil by this point.

In 2014 Muslims made up 98.50% of registered voters in Aaitit. 96.87% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.

References

Bibliography

References

1. From personal name, according to Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/17/mode/1up 17]
2. Renan, 1864, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UpxZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA641 641], as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/108/mode/1up 108]
3. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/90/mode/1up 90]
4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/108/mode/1up 108]
5. admin. (2014-04-11). "Aitit Village Profile, UNDP, 2010".
6. "التوزيع حسب المذاهب للناخبين/ناخبات في بلدة عيتيت، قضاء صور محافظة الجنوب في لبنان".

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