Aramoun, Keserwan
| Aramoun عرمون | |
|---|---|
| Municipality | |
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| Aramoun Location in Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 34°1′9″N 35°42′1″E / 34.01917°N 35.70028°E | |
| Country | Lebanon |
| Governorate | Keserwan-Jbeil |
| District | Keserwan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.48 km2 (0.57 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 730 m (2,400 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Aramoun (Arabic: عرمون, romanized: ʿAramūn; also spelled Aaramoun or ′Aramun) is a town and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. The town is about 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of Beirut.[1] It has an average elevation of 730 meters above sea level and a total land area of 148 hectares.[1] Aramoun's inhabitants are Maronites.[2]
History
According to Ottoman tax records, Aramoun had four Muslim households, twelve Christian households and four Christian bachelors.[3]
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Aramun as a village located in "Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites".[4]
In 1959, an Ariana Airlines plane crashed just moments after taking off from the nearby Beirut International airport. The flight, Flight 202 was going to Iran and then to Afghanistan.
References
- Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 "Aaramoun (Kesrwan)". Localiban. Localiban. 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- Back to citation "Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban" (PDF). Localiban. Localiban. 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- Back to citation Bakhit, Muhammad Adnan Salamah (February 1972). The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century (PhD) (PDF). University of London: School of Oriental and African Studies. p. 287.
- Back to citation Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 194