Tayr Harfa
Tayr Harfa () is a village in Tyre District in Southern Lebanon. Name. According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "The fortress of Harfa". History. In 1852, during the late Ottoman era, Edward Robinson noted it on his travels in the region. In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 200 Metuali inhabitants. In 1881, the PEF's "Survey of Western Palestine" (SWP) described it: "A stone and mud village, containing about 200 Moslems, on a hill, with olives, figs, and arable land, and waste ground covered with brushwood. Water from cisterns."