Daraoun (Arabic: درعون) is a village, part of Harissa-Daraoun municipality, located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon.[1]
Daraoun
درعون | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Maronite Church Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption | |
  Daraoun Location in Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°58′37″N 35°39′31″E / 33.97694°N 35.65861°E | |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | Keserwan-Jbeil |
| District | Keserwan |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
History
editOttoman tax records indicate Daraoun had seven Christian households and three Christian bachelors in 1523, sixteen Muslim households and one imam in 1530, and ten Christian households and three Christian bachelors in 1543.[2] Sons or descendants of Abu Nawfal, the 17th-century head of the Khazen family, settled to some extent in Daraoun.[3]
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Der'an as a village located in "Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites".[4]
References
edit- ^ "Daraoun - Harissa". Localiban. Localiban. 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
- ^ Bakhit 1972, p. 275.
- ^ van Leeuwen 1994, p. 84.
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 193
Bibliography
edit- 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.
- van Leeuwen, Richard (1994). Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khāzin Sheikhs and the Maronite Church, 1736–1840. Leiden, New York and Koln: Brill. ISBN 90-04-09978-6.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
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