says 400 Maronites); there is a Maronite chapel. It is situated on a hillside, with grapes, figs, olives, mulberries, and arable land. The water supply is from many good springs in the wady to the north-west of the village, and cisterns and birket near the village."

According to Irish missionary and traveller, Josias Leslie Porter, near the village in the 1880s stood a rock-cut tomb known as Hazzur, along with several others in the surrounding area; an arch