Damour

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Damour الدامور
City
UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code	+961
Website	www.damour-lb.com

Damour (

for three centuries.

Geography

The city is located in one of the few flat areas of the Lebanese coast. It is built to the north of the river, the ancient Tamyrus,

Highway separates the plantations. Now dismantled, the track is a stopover.

Climate

Damour has a mild mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa).

Churches

There exist six

, Savior's Church. Most of the population is Maronite Catholic

Tourism

Because Damour is one of the few cities of the Lebanese coast having a sand beach, and since it is ten minutes from

.

History

In the 19th century, Damour was the a flourishing center of the

region. Its plain was then planted with mulberry and had twelve large manufacturing companies. Ten thousand workers and technicians worked in the natural silk industry. The city has a real fascination for the Lebanese worker and attracts the largest majority of the natives in the Sahel region.

During the last centuries, Damour was located on the central axis of fighting and successive wars.

In 1302, after the Mamluks took Arwad Island, on 8 June the same year, the Cypriots landed on the Damour River. A battle took place between the Emir Fakhr al - Din Abdel - Hamid bin Jamaluddin Altnokhi, his brother the Emir Shams al - Din Abdullah accompanied by an army of Muslims against the Cypriot. The battle was won by Crusaders. Fakhr Din Emir was killed, while his brother Shams al - Din fell hostage. He was released after five days for a ransom of three thousand dinars tyriens.

In May 1860,

of the people.

During the nights of the first world war, inhabitants met the armoured French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc sailors and received medicines, food and other needed supplies.

In 1941, Damour was the French administrative capital. The city being a strategic crossing point on the road to

. Australian troops, progressing towards the North along the coast, took Damour, held by the French Foreign Legion, faithful to the Vichy Government. A cease-fire was concluded at the end of the battle. There were no more obstacles in the direction of Beirut.

In 1942, South African army engineers built a railway line from Haifa to Beirut along the coast and Australian engineers continued the line to Tripoli. <Orpen N & Martin H J. Salute the Sappers, part 1. 1981 Johannesburg.

> The line is no longer in use.

On January 9, 1976, Palestinians laid siege to the city. On January 20, 1976, thousands of Palestinians committed a massacre of the inhabitants. See

Damour Massacre

.

During Israeli invasion of 1982, the Israeli air force bombed the city which was under the control of the Palestinian militias.

During the Israeli conflict of 2006, the Israeli air force destroyed several bridges on Highway Beirut-Tyre and on the Damour River.

The Historical Bridge

The history of the archeological bridge dates back to the era of prince-Béchir Shehab who had a great interest in it, it was considered a strategic and important transit point between Mt Lebanon and the South.^{[citation needed]}

Neighborhoods

• Mar Thecla El Naame
• Mar Mikhael Al Damour
• Khiyam Al Damour
• Saadiyat
• Ghandouriyeh
• Missiar

Notable People

• Ghada Georges Aoun
• Elie Saab
• Nassib Al Matni (Journalist killed 1958)
• Michel Aoun
• Georges Akl
• Rose Ghorayeb - renowned Lebanese author and literary critic
• Michel Farid Ghrayeb
• Georges Asaad Aoun
• Aziz Al Matni (Journalist/writer)
• Marwan Al Matni (Journalist)
• Said Ghorayeb (Journalist/Television Presenter)
• Michel Azzi (Television Presenter)
• Michel Azzi (Singer)
• Nadine Saab (Singer)
• Joseph Hashem - Zaghloul al-Damour (Zajal Poet)
• Geryes Boustani (Zajal Poet)
• Mario Aoun (Minister)
• Dani Fadel (Scientific Researcher)

Gallery

• Damour views
• 
• 

See also

• Damour river
• Battle of Damour (1941)
• Damour massacre
• Damour notable natives

References

Bibliography

• ISBN 978-0233985169

External links

• Damour Archived 2017-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, Localiban