Jbeil Destrict

Jbeil (Qadaa' Jbail) (Arabic: قضاء جبيل‎) is a destrict (qadaa) in the Munt Lebanon Govrenorate (Arabic محافظة جبل لبنان), Lebanon, tae the northeast o the Lebanon's caipital Beirut. The caipital is Byblos, cried Jbeil an aa.

Location o Jbeil Destrict in Lebanon

The rivers o Al-Madfoun an Nahr Ibrahim form the destrict's natural northren an soothren borders respectively, wi the Mediterranean Sea borderin it frae the wast an the Lebanon muntains frae the east, separatin it frae the adjacent destrict o Baalbek in the Beqaa valley.

Demographics

The destrict's population is predominantly Maronite follaed bi a minority Shiite community, pairticularly in the veelages o Aalmat, Ras Osta, Hjoula, Bichtlida, Lassa, an Mazraat Es Siyad. A Greek Orthodox minority forms pairt o the population an is spread amang several veelages kent locally as "qornet el roum" (the corner o Orthodoxy). These are: Mounsef, Jeddayel, Helwe, Berbara, Gharzouz, an Chikhane.

Jbeil has 3 seats allocated to it in the Lebanese Parliament. Two of these seats are allocated to Maronite Catholics, while the other seat is allocated to the Shi'a Muslims.

Attractions

The Jbeil destrict hosts a number o significant steids. The caipital Byblos is an important historical an airchaeological steid boastin Phoenician, Roman, an Crusader ruins. The muntain veelage o Aannaya hosts the Saunt Maroun-Aannaya monastery an the holy shrine o Saunt Charbel (1828-1898), the first Lebanese saunt (offeecially canonized bi Pape Paul VI in 1977), baith significant releegious Maronite Christian holy steids. The veelage o Laqlouq—wi an altitude o 1750m tae 2000m—is a ski resort. The village of Afqa boasts the Afqa grotto which is the saucrit source of the Adonis river (modren Nahr Ibrahim). The veelage o Bentael (Bintaael) contains the first protectit aurie in Lebanon, established in 1981. Feenally, the veelage o Jaj is host tae survivin cedar trees frae the auncient cedar forests which wur uised tae export cedar wood tae Egyp an later tae Jerusalem.

Touns an veelages o Jbeil destrict

Aabaydat	Aalmat Ech Chmaliyeh	Aalmat Ej Jnoubiyeh
Amsheet	Aannaya	Aaqoura	Adonis
Afqa	Ain Ed Delbeh	Ain El Ghouaybeh
Ain Jrain	Ain Kfaa	Bazyoun
Bchilleh	Beer El Hit	Behdidat	Bejjeh
Bekhaaz	Berbara	Bichtlida
Bentaël	Birket Hjoula	Blat
Boulhos	Brayj	Chatine	Chikhane
Chmout	Edde	Ehmej	Fatreh
Ferhet	Fghal	Frat
Ghabat	Ghalboun	Gharzouz	Ghorfine
Habil	Halate	Haqel
Hay El Aarabeh	Hbaline	Hboub
Hdayneh	Hjoula	Hosrayel
Hsarat	Hsoun	Jaj
Janneh	Jbeil	Jeddayel	Jenjol
Jlisseh	Jouret El Qattine	Kafr	Kfar Hbal
Kfar Hitta	Kfar Kiddeh	Kfar Masshoun
Kfar Qouas	Kfoun	Laqlouq	Lassa
Lehfed	Maad	Majdel
Marj	Mastita	Mayfouq
Mazraat Es Siyad	Mchane	Mghayreh
Michmich	Mounsef	Nahr Ibrahim
Qahmez	Qartaba	Qartaboun
Qorqraiya	Qottara	Ram
Ras Osta	Rihaneh	Seraaita
Souaneh	Tartij	Tourzaiya
Yanouh	Zibdine