Jdeideh

Jdeideh

جديدة المتن
Jdeideh جديدة المتن
City
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Dialing code	+961

Jdeideh (

Arabic: جديدة المتن translit. al-Judaydat), also Jdayde, Jdaideh and Jdeidet el-Matn, is a coastal municipality and the administrative capital of the Matn District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate

.

Jdeideh has an area of approximately 6 km². It is located in the northern suburbs of Beirut city that comprise Greater Beirut. The municipality is formed of three villages of Jdeidet el-Matn, Bauchrieh and Sed el Bauchrieh with a mixed ethnic Armenian & Assyrian population numbering around 160,000 inhabitants.^[1] Jdeidet el-Matn has five municipal council members, while Bauchrieh has nine, and Sed el Bauchrieh has seven,^[2]

Jdeideh is an important industrial zone and a significant location for commercial and banking activity.

Archaeology

Grattoir de côté. A carinated steep-scraper with a racloir on one of the sides. Found at Jdeideh II, Lebanon. Brown Cretaceous flint

Three archaeological sites were found in the Jdeideh area by

Jesuit fathers. Two of these featured finds of Heavy Neolithic flints of the Qaraoun culture

.

Jdeideh I is 750 metres (2,460 ft) northeast of the town on the left bank of the Nahr Mout, in fields on a 15 metres (49 ft) contour. It was discovered by

Saint Joseph University, Museum of Lebanese Prehistory.^[3]

Jdeideh II is 500 metres (1,600 ft) northeast of Tuillerie Medawer (east of

Grattoirs de côté.^[3]

Jdeideh III is on a wooded hilltop north northwest of Aamariyeh on the southwest slopes that was also found by Bergy. He recovered a

Gigantolithic assemblage of massive choppers, scrapers on flakes and coarse picks.^[3]

References

^ Jdeideh's Official Website Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine, URL accessed May 31, 2008.
^ "Overview of Jdeideh" (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
^ ^a ^b ^c Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 94. Imprimerie Catholique. Archived from the original on December 24, 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2011.

External links

[1] Jdeideh's Official Website Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine, URL accessed May 31, 2008.

[2] "Overview of Jdeideh" (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2020-12-09.

[CopelandWescombe1965-3] Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 94. Imprimerie Catholique. Archived from the original on December 24, 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2011.

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v t e Greater Beirut
First-level administrative divisions	Beirut City
List of settlements	Ain Aanoub Ain Saadeh Antelias Aramoun Baabda Basateen Bdadoun Bechamoun City of Beirut Beit Chabab Beit Mary Bourj Hammoud Bourj el-Barajneh Bsaba Bsalim Choueifat Chemlane Chiyah Damour Dahieh Dbayeh Dora Dekwaneh Hadath Hazmieh Jal el Dib Jdeideh Khaldeh Kfarshima Mansourieh Mkalles Mtaileb Na'ameh Naccache Qornet Shehwan Rabieh Roumieh Yarze Zalka

v t e Matn District, Mount Lebanon Governorate
Capital: Jdeideh
Towns and villages	Ain Aar Ain el Safssaf Ain el Sendianeh Ain Saadeh Aintoura Amaret Chalhoub Antelias Aoukar Al-Ayroun Baabdat Baskinta Bauchrieh Beit Chabab Beit el Chaar Beit el Kekko Beit Mery Bhersaf Biakout Bikfaya Bkenneya Bourj Hammoud Broummana Bsalim Bteghrine Chaouiyeh Choueir Daher al Hosein Dahr el Sawan Daychounieh Dbayeh Dekwaneh Dik El Mehdi Dhour El Choueir Dora Douar Fanar Ghabeh Ghabet Bologna Hadirah Haret al Ballaneh Haret ech Cheikh Hemlaya Hbous Jal el Dib Jdeideh Jouar Jouret el Ballout Kaakour Kfarakab Kfartay Khenchara Majdel Tarchich Majzoub Mansourieh Mar Chaaya Mar Michael Bnabil Mar Moussa Mar Roukouz Marjaba Mazraat Yachouh Mchikha Mezher Mhaydseh Mkalles Mrouj Mtaileb Mtein Mzekkeh Nabay Naccache Ouyoun Qonaytrah Qonnabat Broummana Qornet Shehwan Rabieh Roumieh Sakiyat al Mesek Sed el Bauchrieh Sin el Fil Sfaileh Wata el Mrouj Zalka Zarooun Zakrit Zouk al Khrab
Notable landmarks	Mount Sannine
Notable sites	Aqueduct of Zubaida Deir el Qalaa Saint Elias Monastery