page_title: Miye ou Miye
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Miye ou Miye / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Phoenician Cave in Mieh Mieh village
context_page_description: Miye ou Miye is a village in southern Lebanon located 5 km East of Sidon and 45 km south of the capital Beirut and it overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. The village lies at an average altitude of 156 m above sea level. Miye ou Miyes' surface stretches for 230 hectares. The village is bordered with a number of villages/towns: East: Qraiyeh, Ain El Delb; West: Sidon; North: Haret Saida; and South: Darb es Sim, Zaghdraiya.
context_section_description: In the 17th century, Miye ou Miye was mostly farmland owned by a number of wealthy families. The families of "Abu Nakad" and "Faddoul" owned half of the land and the state owned the rest.  In the 18th century, Christians started to move to the village, and the state encouraged the farmers by giving them land to farm.  The farmers in return had to pay back 10% of the crops. In 1875 Victor Guérin found the village to have 400 inhabitants,  some Maronites and some Greek Orthodox.
  In the 19th century, American missionaries came to the village for missionary work. In 1985, the Lebanese Civil War spread to South Lebanon, and the villagers fled for their safety farther south and others went to the capital.  From there they started their journey abroad to over 26 countries.  The majority went to the United States of America, Canada, and Australia. In August 1991, the Miye ou Miye refugees returned and started rebuilding the village that was destroyed completely.  Today, Miye ou Miye is full of life and it became better than it was before the war.  Immigrants, who are living away from their hometown, carried their little town in their hearts along with deep pride of their heritage.  This deep love and passion guided them in their daily lives and provided a moral compass.
  
  The Miye ou Miye population consists of the following families: 
  Abdallah
  Abdo
  Abed El-Aziz
  Abou Akel
  Abou Zeid
  Abu Elia
  Abu Hamra
  Al Hanna
  Amin
  Ammoury
  Andraos
  Asaad
  Assaf
  Audi
  Bou Saba
  Bou Shaar
  Chabab
  Chemali
  Chouweiry
  Costantin
  Dagher
  Daher
  Daniel
  Darwish
  Dib
  El Saghbini
  Francis
  Gerges
  Haddad
  Haikal
  Hanna
  Hayek
  Hosni
  Jabbour
  Jack
  Jarjoura
  Joubran
  Khalaf
  Khalil
  Khawand
  Khoury
  Kozhaya
  Kurban
  Makhoul
  Mansour
  Maroun
  Matta
  Moussa
  Nahed
  Najem
  Nawfal
  Oustfan
  Rahal
  Rouzkallah
  Saikaly
  Saliba
  Semaan
  Shemaly
  Tiyyar
  Touma
  Wakim
  Wanna
  Wardy
caption: Pheonician Cave in Miye ou Miye
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