Daraoun

Village in Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon

Daraoun درعون
Village
Maronite Church Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
33°58′37″N 35°39′31″E / 33.97694°N 35.65861°E / 33.97694; 35.65861
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Keserwan-Jbeil
District	Keserwan
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	+3

Daraoun (Arabic: درعون) is a village, part of Harissa-Daraoun municipality, located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon.^[1]

History

Ottoman tax records indicate Daraoun had seven Christian households and three Christian bachelors in 1523, sixteen Muslim households and one imam in 1530, and ten Christian households and three Christian bachelors in 1543.^[2] Sons or descendants of Abu Nawfal, the 17th-century head of the Khazen family, settled to some extent in Daraoun.^[3]

In 1838, Eli Smith noted Der'an as a village located in "Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites".^[4]

References

^ "Daraoun - Harissa". Localiban. Localiban. 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
^ Bakhit 1972, p. 275.
^ van Leeuwen 1994, p. 84.
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 193

Bibliography

Bakhit, Muhammad Adnan Salamah (February 1972). The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
van Leeuwen, Richard (1994). Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khāzin Sheikhs and the Maronite Church, 1736–1840. Leiden, New York and Koln: Brill. ISBN 90-04-09978-6.
Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.