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Maarab

Maarab (Arabic: معراب, romanizedMiʿrāb) is a village located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon.

History

Ottoman tax records, which did not differentiate between Muslim communities, indicate Maarab had a population 15 Muslim households and three imams in 1523, 16 Muslim households in 1530, and 17 Muslim households in 1543.

Notable residents

References

  1. ^ "قرى لبنانية : معراب". locate Lebanon. locate Lebanon. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  2. ^ Bakhit 1972, p. 275.

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.