Mukhtara
Sign in to saveMoukhtara () is a small town in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. The town's inhabitants are divided between Druze and Maronites. It is the hometown of Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party.
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Place details
- Locality
- مختارة
- Region
- محافظة جبل لبنان
- Country
- لبنان
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Moukhtara
- Ancient site.image
- HARVEY(1861) p008 PALACE OF SAID BAG JUMBULAH AT MOKTARAH.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- The Jumblatt family palace in Moukhtara, 1861
- Ancient site.map_type
- Lebanon
- Ancient site.location
- 30 miles from Beirut, Lebanon
- Ancient site.region
- Chouf District, Mount Lebanon Governorate
- Ancient site.part_of
- Settlement
- Ancient site.material
- tools, flint, bone, ceramics
- Ancient site.epochs
- PPNB, Neolithic
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1963
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- J. Cauvin
- Ancient site.condition
- ruins
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Lebanon
- Located in
- Chouf District
- Image
- HARVEY(1861) p008 PALACE OF SAID BAG JUMBULAH AT MOKTARAH.jpg
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- Moukhtara
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Article · Italiano
Mukhtara (in arabo: مختارة, Mukhtāra) è una cittadina del Libano situata nel Distretto dello Shuf, sul Monte Libano. È la città natale di Walid Jumblatt, leader del Partito Socialista Progressista. Mukhtāra è anche un antico sito archeologico, scavato nel 1963 da , che rinvenne 378 utensili in selce: pugnali, punte di freccia, falcetti, asce, scalpelli, picconi e punteruoli risalenti al neolitico.
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