Hasbaya District
Hasbaya District is one of the four districts of the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon, located in the southeast.[1]
Under Ottoman suzerainty, the town was historically the seat of the Chehab family, who ruled the area. The Chehabi Citadel, a notable feature in the town, was constructed by them.[2]
Population
[change | change source]It has a population of 37,784 as of 2017 consensus.[3]
Nearby Borders
[change | change source]It has borders with Israel to the south and Syria to the east.
History
[change | change source]Hasbaya was one of several towns that the Druze assaulted during the civil war in Mount Lebanon in 1860. After a protracted siege, the Christian residents were largely routed and massacred. Scholars also claim that the Druze killed seventeen Muslim Shihab emirs because they defended the Christians. Sa'id Janbulat's sister, Sitt Nayfa, was commended by the French consul for her efforts to defend Christian emirs' wives. However, the Druze did not attack American missionaries, who were not connected to the Maronites, nor did they plunder the Protestant church in Hasbayya.[4]
Because of the American mission in Beirut, several of the local Orthodox Christians converted to Protestantism in 1844.[5]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "التوزيع حسب المذاهب للناخبين/ناخبات في قضاء حاصبيا، محافظة النبطية في لبنان". إعْرَفْ لبنان. Retrieved 2025-02-04.
- ↑ "Chehabi Citadel". Chehabi Citadel. Retrieved 2025-02-04.
- ↑ "Ḥāṣbayyā (District, Lebanon) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2025-02-04.
- ↑ Makdisi, Ussama Samir, ed. (2000). The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21845-1.
- ↑ Tibawi, A. L. (1966-06-01). "Russian cultural penetration of Syria — Palestine in the nineteenth century (Part I)". Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society. 53 (2): 166–182. doi:10.1080/03068376608731948. ISSN 0035-8789.