Harouf

Harouf (Arabic حاروف) is a village in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon and is located north of the Litani River. The village is economically important due to the presence of a famous industrial area in it known as "Marj Harouf".

History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village,  Haruf, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif  under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of  12  households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25%  on  agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to  "occasional revenues"; a total of 2,459 akçe.

In 1875, Victor Guérin found Harouf to be a village of about 140 Metualis. He further noted several sarcophagi, convincing him that it was an ancient place.