Ashqout
Ashqout
عشقوت | |
---|---|
Municipality | |
UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Dialing code | +961 |
Ashqout (
Arabic: عشقوت; also spelled Ashkout, Achqout, `Ashqut) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is located 31 kilometers north of Beirut. Ashqout's average elevation is 1,000 meters above sea level and its total land area is 588 hectares.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholic, with Christians from other denominations in the minority.[2]
Ottoman tax records indicate Ashqout had 43 Christian households in 1523, 43 Christian households and seven bachelors in 1530, and 33 Christian households and 14 bachelors in 1543.[3]
The town has three schools, one public and two private, in the town, with a total of 739 students as of 2008.
References
- ^ a b c "Aachqout". Localiban. Localiban. 2008-01-18. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ "Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban" (PDF). Localiban. Localiban. 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ Bakhit 1972, p. 275.
- ^ "Rayyane Tabet's first US museum commission opens at the Walker". Artdaily.com. June 12, 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
Bibliography
- 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.