[1] In the 6th-century AD pilgrimage guide Antonini Placentini Itinerarium,Trieri (Trierim civitatem) is mentioned and placed between Beirut and Byblos.

[3] According to Lipiński, the name Tabarja (Tabarga) stems from Tiberias through an Arabic dialectal change of -iyya in "Tabariyya" into "Tabarigg", or a Frankish process of palatalization to "Tabarge".

[a] The settlement was so-called after emperor Tiberius, like the town built in the first century AD on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.

[4][3] As for the Semitic root of the Greek exonym Trieres, Lipiński suggests "traʿ- ʾarʿā" which means in Aramaic "the gate of the country"; a hypothesis that is corroborated by the Latin name of "Passus Pagani" (the Pass of the Countrymen" mentioned by William, a 12th-century chronicler and archbishop of Tyre.

[3] Local tradition reports that a rich king called Bargis lived in this town in the ancient times.