Shehour
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Shehour, Shuhur, or Shhur ( ), is a municipality on the Litani River in the Tyre District of Southern Lebanon's South Governorate, some 95 kilometres to the south-west of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon.
Shehour, Shuhur, or Shhur ( ), is a municipality on the Litani River in the Tyre District of Southern Lebanon's South Governorate, some 95 kilometres to the south-west of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon.
Etymology
E. H. Palmer wrote that the name Shuhûr meant "mud walls", or "conspicuous part".
History
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.43% of registered voters in Shehour. 97.87% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.
Educational establishment
The table below provides a comparison of public and private schools locally and nationally. It can be used to assess the distribution of students between public and private institutions both locally and nationally. All data provided on education concerning the 2005–2006 school year. Since the publication of more recent figures we will strive to published online.
Notable people
al-Sayyid Yusuf Sharaf al-Din, father of Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi Musa al-Sadr founder of the Amal Movement in Lebanon.
Bibliography
External links
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons Chehour Localliban: Centre de resource sur le developpement local https://web.archive.org/web/20100619010329/http://shohour.org/
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