Chouf (also spelled Shouf, Shuf or Chuf, in Arabic: جبل الشوف Jabal ash-Shouf) is a historic region of Lebanon, as well as an administrative district...
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phase of the Lebanese Civil War, which occurred at the mountainous Chouf District located south-east of the Lebanese Capital Beirut. It pitted the Lebanese...
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Beiteddine Maasser el Chouf Majdel Meouch Mazboud Mazraat el Chouf Mazraat el Daher Mechref Mghayrie Moukhtara Mristeh Naameh Niha Chouf Rmeileh Sebline Semkanieh...
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The Chouf region, also spelled Shouf, is a historical and geographical area located in the central part of Lebanon. Like much of Lebanon, the Chouf was...
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Jdeidet el Chouf Jiyeh Joun Kahlounie Ketermaya Kfarfakoud Kfarhim Kfarkatra Kfarnabrakh Kfarniss Khraybeh Knayse Maasser Beiteddine Maasser el Chouf Majdel...
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and its regional base is in Mount Lebanon Governorate, especially the Chouf District. Founded by Kamal Jumblatt in 1949, the party was led by his son Walid...
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Barja (category Populated places in Chouf District)
Barja (Arabic: برجا, also known as Barja al-Chouf) is a town and municipality in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. Barja...
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pro-government conservative Christian and Muslim militias in Beirut and the Chouf District. Disbanded upon the conclusion of the war, the PSP was left without...
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Joun (category Populated places in Chouf District)
جون) is a Lebanese village sitting on seven hills in the Chouf (Arabic: قضاء الشوف) district of Mount Lebanon at a distance of 13 kilometers from the...
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located in Chouf District in Mount Lebanon Governorate. The name is derived from "Dar" which means house or home. Daraya belongs to the Chouf District; it is...
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Wiam Wahhab (category People from Chouf District)
October 1964) is a Lebanese politician and journalist from Jahlieh, Chouf District, and the founder of the Arab Unification Party. Born to a Druze family...
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Chouf District, the Aley district is also one of the most religiously diverse areas in Lebanon. The largest religious community in the Aley district is...
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Taymur Jumblatt (category People from Chouf District)
was elected a member of the Lebanese Parliament, representing the Chouf-Aley district in Mount-Lebanon Governorate. He is a member of the World Economic...
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Alamuddin is of the Alam al-Din dynasty and is from Baakleen in the Chouf District. He received his MBA degree at the American University of Beirut and...
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Antoine Lahad (category People from Chouf District)
into a Maronite Catholic family in 1927 in the village of Kfar Qatra, Chouf District. He graduated from the Lebanese Military Academy in 1952. Lahad took...
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Dany Chamoun (category People from Chouf District)
Dany Chamoun (Arabic: داني شمعون; 26 August 1934 – 21 October 1990) was a prominent Lebanese politician. A Maronite Christian, the younger son of former...
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Pamela El Kik (category People from Chouf District)
Pamela El Kik (Arabic: باميلا الكيك; born 14 May 1988 in Deir al-Qamar) is a Lebanese actress who grew up in Ashrafieh, Lebanon. She began her career at...
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Wadih El Safi (category People from Chouf District)
Wadih El Safi (Arabic: وديع الصافي, romanized: Wadīʿ aṣ-Ṣāfī, born Wadih Francis; November 1, 1921 – October 11, 2013) was a Lebanese singer and composer...
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prominent Maronite political family in the town of Deir el Qamar in the Chouf district. His father is the former president of the NLP, Dory Chamoun. He joined...
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south to the Damour River in the Chouf District until it reaches the "Nahr al-Kalb" river in the Keserwan District in the north. It also comprises many...
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2024. https://www.dostor.org/773210 "Municipality of Deir el Qamar (Chouf District, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon)". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved March...
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May Arslan (category People from Chouf District)
May Arslan (1928–2013) was a Lebanese Druze woman who was a member of the Arslan family, and her father was Shakib Arslan. She was the mother of Walid...
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Beiteddine Palace (category Chouf District)
33°41′46.39″N 35°34′47.76″E / 33.6962194°N 35.5799333°E / 33.6962194; 35.5799333 Beiteddine Palace (Arabic: قصر بيت الدين) is an 18th-century palace...
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Jackie Chamoun (category People from Chouf District)
Jackie Chamoun (born 21 October 1991) is a Lebanese alpine skier. At the age of 14, she started participating in professional skiing events (slalom and...
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mid-August) a series of massacres on Christian civilians took place in the Chouf region during the Lebanese Civil War. The massacres were mostly committed...
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Walid Jumblatt (category People from Chouf District)
tenure. Around 2,000 supporters gathered in Ain Zhalta, a Druze town in the Chouf mountains, where members of the Progressive Socialist Party named political...
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bloc, with the likes of Najat Aoun Saliba of the Chouf district and Mark Daou of the Aley district. Like many other candidates in its region, the party...
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chief of the Druze districts. Ali soon after exterminated the Ma'ns' Buhturid allies. Although he lost control of the Chouf district to the Ma'ns in 1636...
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Mount Lebanon (Aley District, Baabda District, and Chouf District), Rashaya District, Hasbaya, Matn District, and Marjeyoun District. The relationship between...
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Nazira Jumblatt (category People from Chouf District)
Nazira Jumblatt (1890–1951) (Arabic: نظيره جنبلاط) was a Druze leader and the mother of Lebanese politician and Kamal Jumblatt. She was styled sitt (lady...
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