Toura, Lebanon
Toura is a village in the Tyre District in South Lebanon.Name
According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name Torah comes from "flowing water".History
In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 450 Metawileh. He further noted that the village occupied "the summit of a hill entirely covered with fig-trees."
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it: "A village of mud and stone, situated on the top of a hill, and surrounded by figs, olives, and arable land. There are a spring and cisterns. It contains about 200 Metawileh."
