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1 Biblical controversy  





2 History  



2.1  Modern era  







3 Location  





4 Residents  





5 Local authorities  





6 Educational sector  





7 Service and trade institutions  





8 Agricultural sector  





9 Clubs and associations  





10 Historic sites  





11 Characteristics  





12 In popular culture  





13 References  





14 Bibliography  





15 External links  














Qana






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Coordinates: 33°1233N 35°1757E / 33.20917°N 35.29917°E / 33.20917; 35.29917
 

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Qana
قانا
Town
Qana is located in Lebanon
Qana

Qana

Coordinates: 33°12′33N 35°17′57E / 33.20917°N 35.29917°E / 33.20917; 35.29917
Grid position178/290 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictTyre
Elevation
950 ft (290 m)
Population
 • Total10,000 (Estimate)

Qana, also spelled Cana or Kana, (Arabic: قانا)[1] is a town in southern Lebanon located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southeast of the city of Tyre and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the border with Israel, in an area historically known as Upper Galilee. Qana is known for its antiquity, as well as being the place where Jesus Of Nazareth and his Mother Mary visited and attended a wedding. It is revered by Lebanese Christians and Muslims alike.

The 10,000 residents of Qana are primarily Shia[2] although there is also a Melkite (Greek Catholic) Christian community in the village.

Biblical controversy[edit]

Bas-Relief of the Apostles in Qana, a Christian pilgrimage site in Lebanon

In the Gospel of John, Jesus is said to have performed his first miracle of turning water into wine at CanainGalilee. Lebanese Christians, and some Shia Muslims believe Qana to have been the actual location of this event.[2] Eusebius of the 4th century share this view in his Onomasticon.[3][4][5]


In 1994, Nabih Berri, Lebanon's Parliament Speaker and leader of the secular Shia Amal Movement, wanted to establish a Christian shrine at a cave in Qana to attract tourists and pilgrims.[2] The government sent a 100-man company of troops to Qana to prevent potential religious conflict. This proposal was revived in 1999.[6]

History[edit]

1879 illustration by German explorer Johann Nepomuk Sepp of "Grosskana"

There are many ancient ruins around the village.[7]

In 1596, it was named as a village, Qana, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 47 households and five bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a taxes on agricultural products, such as goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues", a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed sum; a total of 3,916 akçe.[8][9]

In 1875 Victor Guérin visited: "This great village, the population of which is at least a thousand, is divided into three quartiers. The highest, called Kana el Foka, occupies the summit of the hill. It is considered the most ancient of the three. It is now entirely abandoned, except by about thirty Metawileh, and the stones of its overthrown houses are continually being removed to build new houses in the two other quarters. In the second quarter are about 600 Metawileh in the third, 400 United Greeks.'[10]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A large village of well-built houses, whose inhabitants are partly Christians, partly Moslems. There are about 400 Christians to 500 Moslems. The ground is cultivated, and planted with olives and figs. The village is divided into two parts, with a birket between. There is a Christian church. It is situated on high ground, and is well supplied with water from the two springs, 'Ain el Gharbiyeh and 'Ain el Kussis.[11]

Modern era[edit]

Entrance to the UN base in Qana, 1992
Graves of the 28 people killed by the airstrikes on Qana

Qana is known internationally for two separate incidents in which the Israeli Defense Forces caused civilian deaths during military operations in Lebanon.

After both attacks the residents of Qana built memorials to commemorate the deaths.

Location[edit]

Qana is located in the Tyre District within the Governorate (Mohafaza)ofSouth Lebanon. It is 14 km (9 mi) away from the center of the caza and 92 km (57 mi) from the capital of Lebanon, Beirut. Qana stands at an altitude of 300 m (984 ft) and the town's size is approximately 1,100 hectares (2,718 acres). Surrounding villages include Hanaway, Deir Kanoun, Rmadiyyeh, Deir Amess and Siddikine.

Residents[edit]

The Melkite church of Saint Joseph in Qana, built in 1906. The parish belongs to the Melkite Archeparchy of Tyre. On the right hand side is a statue of the Virgin "Our Lady of Cana of Galilee" in memory of Margot Tyan, mother-in-law of Amine Gemayel, former President of Lebanon.

In 2007, the registered population was an estimated 7,700 (based on the number of voters in the year 2000 that reached around 4,940). The resident population did then not exceed 3,800 and the number of households was estimated at 620. In terms of confession, Shiites constituted 95% of Qana's resident population, but the registered population was distributed as follows:[15]

According, to the Paris-based Centre de ressources sur le développement local au Liban, one can count approximately 100 families in Qana, with the largest, based on the number of voters, being the following: Attieh (580 voters), Borji (200 voters), Chalhoub (196 voters), Abdel Rida (186 voters), Sa’egh (184 voters), Jaber (158 voters), Zaarour (134 voters), Hammoud (130 voters), Dakhlallah (124 voters), Haidar (116 voters), Adib (104 voters), Salami (103 voters), Farnoune (78 voters), Madi (71 voters), Hodroj (69 voters), Haddad (152 voters), Boutros (77 voters), Shami (72 voters), Hajj (66 voters), and Abdelhussein (21 voters).

Local authorities[edit]

The local administration in Qana is headed by a Municipal Council composed of 15 members and headed by Dr. Salah Salami. In addition, the town has four mayors: Afif Haddad, Ali Ismail, Ali Attieh and Kemel Farnoune.

Educational sector[edit]

There are two public schools in Qana (Qana Public High School with around 600 students and the Public Intermediate School of Qana that has approximately 550 students), and two private schools (Jabal Amel Typical school which is subsidized and numbers 370 students and Jabal Amel High School with 142 students).

Service and trade institutions[edit]

The number of service and trade institutions in the town are estimated to be in the region of 263, dealing mainly in the fabric trade and clothing (26), food products (51), restaurants (7), barber shops (9), household items (14), bakeries and butcheries (12), pharmacies (4), smithery and mechanics (19), sawmills and galleries (13), gas stations (4), smithery and aluminum (11), libraries (4).

Agricultural sector[edit]

The municipality of Qana owns approximately 23% of the town's total area. Agricultural land constitutes 37% of the terrain and land ownership is distributed among approximately 220 families i.e. the town's real estate is owned by 22% of the families in the town.

Olive cultivation consumes around 65% of agricultural land, with 15% for grains and 20% for tobacco. In addition, 62 people are employed in the agriculture sector, which is approximately 7% of the labor force.

Clubs and associations[edit]

There are seven associations in the village of Qana distributed as follows: Qana sports club, Qana's agricultural cooperative, Association of Qana El Jalil, El Jalil club (non-active), as well as the family associations of the Attieh, Hammoud and Zaarour families.

Historic sites[edit]

There are natural, rock-dug caves to be found in Qana that carry old inscriptions. It is said that Jesus Christ’s first miracle took place at a wedding ceremony (the Wedding at Cana) in one of these caves. The tomb of King Hiram of Tyre can be found at the outskirts of the town and in the neighbouring village of Hanaway.

There are also two mosques in Qana, as well as the Saint Joseph Church for Catholics.

Characteristics[edit]

Qana can be characterized by the high emigration rates it has seen, dating back to the 1920s. Increasing progressively, the current number of those who have emigrated has reached 2,500 people, which is equivalent to 32% of the registered population.

Main destinations for Qana residents include the Côte d'Ivoire (46%), Senegal (15%), Saudi Arabia (6%), the United States (6%), Zaïre (5%) as well as other countries (Sierra Leone, Kuwait, Liberia, Nigeria, France and the UK).

Finally, Qana’s name has become synonymous with the deaths of 100 of its residents under the Israeli ‘Grapes of Wrath’ bombardment in April 1996.

In popular culture[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ From a personal name, according to Palmer 1881, p. 5
  • ^ a b c Fisk, Robert (7 January 1994). "Imam finds miracle hard to swallow: A battle is looming in the village". The Independent.
  • ^ Ewing, W (1915). "Cana". In James Orr (ed.). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  • ^ Eusebius, of Caesarea (2006) [manuscript, 1971]. "Kappa, in Joshua". In Wolf, Carl Umhau (ed.). THE ONOMASTICON OF EUSEBIUS PAMPHILI, COMPARED WITH THE VERSION OF JEROME AND ANNOTATED. tertullian.org. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  • ^ Eusebius, of Caesarea (1904). Klostermann, Erich (ed.). Das Onomastikon der Biblischen Ortsnamen. Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte (in Greek and Latin). Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. pp. 116–117. OCLC 490976390. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  • ^ "Lebanon to develop Qana into Christian tourist site", Agence France-Presse, 7 December 1999.
  • ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 64
  • ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180
  • ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 10 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  • ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 390-392; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 49
  • ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 49
  • ^ "Question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine: written statement submitted by the Hariri Foundation". United Nations. United Nations Commission on Human Rights. 29 January 2004. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  • ^ "Letter Dated 7 May 1996 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council". United Nations Security Council. 7 May 1996. Archived from the original on 20 May 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2007.
  • ^ Human Rights Watch puts Qana death toll at 28 Archived 30 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Reuters, 3 August 2006.
  • ^ موقع Localiban
  • ^ Bawardi, Basilius (2016). "3: The Second Generation: Mayy Murr and Muri S 'Awwad". The Lebanese-Phoenician nationalist movement: literature, language and identity. Library of modern Middle East studies (in 104). London, New York: I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78453-237-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Bibliography[edit]

  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  • External links[edit]

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