Ghosta, Lebanon
Ghosta
غوسطا | |
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Municipality | |
| Ghosta Monastery and Church, Lebanon Ghosta Monastery and Church, Lebanon | |
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| Country | File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon |
| Governorate | Keserwan-Jbeil |
| District | Keserwan |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.61 km2 (1.78 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 950 m (3,120 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Area code | 09 |
Ghosta (Arabic: غوسطا) is a municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is located 36 kilometers north of Beirut. Ghosta's average elevation is 950 meters above sea level and its total land area is 461 hectares.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholics.[2]
History
[edit | edit source]Ottoman tax records indicate Ghosta had 11 Christian households in 1523, 12 Christian households and one bachelor in 1530, and 15 Christian households and one bachelor in 1543.[3]
The qass Jirjis Khayr Allah Istifān founded in 1660 the monastery of 'Ayn Warqa with the support of the Khazen sheiks.[4] The monastery was transformed in a college according to the model of the Maronite College in Rome in the late eighteenth century.[4][5]
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Ghusta as a village located in Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites.[6]
Ghosta has three schools, two private and one public, with a total of 772 students as of 2008. As of 2008, there were eleven companies with at least five employees operating in the village.[1] It is home to the Congregation of Maronite Lebanese Missionaries and its main monastery, and the birthplace of Lebanese pioneer painter, Daoud Corm (1852 – 1930) and of pioneer Lebanese journalist, Philippe Ziade (1909–2005).[7]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ a b Leeuwen 1994, p. 275.
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- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 194
- ^ Khoury, Fayek. (1980). Fifty Years of Journalistic Memories (in Arabic).
Bibliography
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