Aintoura

Aintoura (; Syriac: ܥܝܢܛܘܪܐ) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 18 kilometers north of Beirut. The average elevation of Aintoura is 230 meters above the sea level and its total land area is 71 hectares. Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Christians.

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Place details

Locality: مزرعة الراس
Region: محافظة كسروان جبيل
Country: لبنان
Population: 0

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Key facts

Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.official_name: Aintoura
Settlement.other_name: ܥܝܢܛܘܪܐ
Settlement.native_name: عينطورا
Settlement.image_skyline: The Main Court 2014-05-04 12-48.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Collège Saint Joseph in Aintoura
Settlement.pushpin_map: Lebanon
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Lebanon
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Mount Lebanon
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Keserwan
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 0.71
Settlement.population_blank1_title: Ethnicities
Settlement.population_blank2_title: Religions

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Wikidata facts

Area: 0.71
Elevation: 230

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History
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==History== Aintoura, which means "the water spring of the mountain" (ܥܝܢܛܘܪܐ) in Syriac, is a very old village inhabited, as tools found in two of its historic grottos witness, since the Stone Age. More recent history shows that Aintoura has been inhabited between 1307 and 1515, and since 1657 when people started living there on a continuous basis.