Keserwan District
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Keserwan District is a district in Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon, to the northeast of Lebanon's capital Beirut. The capital, Jounieh, is overwhelmingly Christian, mostly consisting of Maronites.
Jounieh Bay
Our Lady of Lebanon church, Keserwan District
Kisrawan
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The Kisrawan or Keserwan is a region between Mount Lebanon and the Mediterranean coast, north of the Lebanese capital Beirut and south of the Ibrahim River. It is administered by the eponymous Keserwa
Keserwan District
…Assaf dynasty Kisrawan Mount Lebanon revolts of 752 and 759…
After the Ottoman conquest of the Levant in 1516, the Assaf lords of Kisrawan moved their headquarters to Ghazir (pictured in 1893), where they cultivated close ties with the Maronites of the district, particularly the Hubaysh family, at the expense of their Turkmen kinsmen.
The village of Faraya in the Kisrawan was settled by Shia Muslims from Baalbek in the early 16th century
The Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke, Kisrawan
Tanyus Shahin of the village of Rayfoun led the peasants of Kisrawan in revolt against their Khazen lords in 1859