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Maarab

Coordinates: 33°59′52″N 35°40′54″E / 33.99778°N 35.68167°E / 33.99778; 35.68167
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Maarab
معراب
Village
Maarab is located in Lebanon
Maarab
Maarab
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°59′52″N 35°40′54″E / 33.99778°N 35.68167°E / 33.99778; 35.68167
Country Lebanon
GovernorateKeserwan-Jbeil
DistrictKeserwan
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3

Maarab (Arabic: معراب, romanizedMiʿrāb) is a village located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon.[1]

History

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Ottoman tax records, which did not differentiate between Muslim communities, indicate Maarab had a population 15 Muslim households and three imams in 1523, 16 Muslim households in 1530, and 17 Muslim households in 1543.[2]

Notable residents

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References

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  1. ^ "قرى لبنانية : معراب". locate Lebanon. locate Lebanon. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  2. ^ Bakhit 1972, p. 275.

Bibliography

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  • Bakhit, Muhammad Adnan Salamah (February 1972). The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.