# Ashqout

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{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Ashqout
| native_name             = عشقوت
| native_name_lang        = ara<!-- ISO 639-2 code: "fr" for French, "ara" for Arabic -->
| settlement_type         = Municipality
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| pushpin_map             = Lebanon
| pushpin_label_position  = 
| pushpin_map_alt         = Map showing the location of Ashqout within Lebanon
| pushpin_map_caption     = Location within Lebanon
| coordinates             = {{coord|33.987353|35.707626|region:LB_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes   = 
| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = Lebanon
| subdivision_type1       = [Governorate](/source/Governorates_of_Lebanon)
| subdivision_name1       = [Keserwan-Jbeil](/source/Keserwan-Jbeil_Governorate)
| subdivision_type2       = [District](/source/Districts_of_Lebanon)
| subdivision_name2       = [Keserwan](/source/Keserwan_District)
| established_title       = <!-- Founded -->
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| area_total_km2          = 7.88
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| elevation_m             = 1,250
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| population_density_km2  = auto
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| timezone1               = [EET](/source/Eastern_European_Time)
| utc_offset1             = +2
| timezone1_DST           = [EEST](/source/Eastern_European_Summer_Time)
| utc_offset1_DST         = +3
| postal_code_type        = Postal code
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| area_code_type          = [Dialing code](/source/Telephone_numbers_in_Lebanon)
| area_code               = +961
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}}
'''Ashqout''' ({{langx|ar|عشقوت|ʿAshqūt}}; also spelled ''Ashkout'', ''Achqout'', ''`Ashqut'') is a town and municipality in the [Keserwan District](/source/Keserwan_District) of the [Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate](/source/Keserwan-Jbeil_Governorate) of [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon). It is located 31 kilometers north of [Beirut](/source/Beirut). Ashqout's average elevation is 1,000 meters above sea level and its total land area is 588 [hectare](/source/hectare)s.<ref name="localiban">{{cite web|title=Aachqout|url=http://www.localiban.org/article4402.html|website=Localiban|publisher=Localiban|accessdate=2009-07-24|date=2008-01-18}}</ref> Its inhabitants are predominantly [Maronite Catholic](/source/Maronites), with Christians from other denominations in the minority.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban |url=http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/Elections_municipales_libanaises_2010_-_Mont-Liban.pdf |website=Localiban |publisher=Localiban |accessdate=2016-02-12 |page=19 |format=pdf |date=2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724081015/http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/Elections_municipales_libanaises_2010_-_Mont-Liban.pdf |archivedate=2015-07-24 }}</ref>

[Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) tax records indicate Ashqout had 43 Christian households in 1523, 43 Christian households and seven bachelors in 1530, and 33 Christian households and 14 bachelors in 1543.{{sfn|Bakhit|1972|p=275}}

The town has three schools, one public and two private, in the town, with a total of 739 students as of 2008.<ref name="localiban"/> The El-Hajj Hospital, which has 28 beds, is located in Ashqout.<ref name="localiban"/> It is the birthplace of [Ahmad Faris Shidyaq](/source/Ahmad_Faris_Shidyaq) (1804–1887); [Paul Peter Massad](/source/Paul_Peter_Massad) (1806–1890); and [Rayyane Tabet](/source/Rayyane_Tabet) (born 1983).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=June 12, 2021 |title=Rayyane Tabet's first US museum commission opens at the Walker |url=https://artdaily.com/news/136525/Rayyane-Tabet-s-first-US-museum-commission-opens-at-the-Walker#.YkfAzW7MJUk |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=Artdaily.com}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite thesis |last=Bakhit |first=Muhammad Adnan Salamah |title=The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century |publisher=School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |date=February 1972 |type=PhD}}

{{Keserwan District}}

Category:Populated places in Keserwan District
Category:Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon

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