Daraoun

{{Infobox settlement   |official_name = Daraoun |other_name = |native_name =درعون |nickname = |settlement_type = Village |motto =  |image_skyline = Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption à Daroun.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = Maronite Church ''Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption'' |image_flag = |flag_size = |image_seal = |seal_size = |image_shield = |shield_size = |image_blank_emblem = |blank_emblem_type = |blank_emblem_size = |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |image_dot_map = |dot_mapsize = |dot_map_caption = |dot_x = |dot_y = |pushpin_map = Lebanon  |pushpin_label_position =bottom |pushpin_mapsize = |pushpin_map_caption =Location in Lebanon  |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{Flag|Lebanon}} |subdivision_type1 = Governorate |subdivision_name1 = Keserwan-Jbeil |subdivision_type2 = District |subdivision_name2 = Keserwan |subdivision_type3 = |subdivision_name3 = |subdivision_type4 = |subdivision_name4 =  |government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name = |leader_title1 =  |leader_name1 = |leader_title2 = |leader_name2 = |leader_title3 = |leader_name3 = |leader_title4 = |leader_name4 = |established_title =  |established_date = |established_title2 =  |established_date2 = |established_title3 =  |established_date3 =  |area_magnitude = |unit_pref =Imperial  |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 =  |area_land_km2 =  |area_water_km2 = |area_total_sq_mi = |area_land_sq_mi = |area_water_sq_mi = |area_water_percent = |area_urban_km2 = |area_urban_sq_mi = |area_metro_km2 = |area_metro_sq_mi = |area_blank1_title = |area_blank1_km2 = |area_blank1_sq_mi =  |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total = |population_density_km2 = |population_density_sq_mi = |population_metro = |population_density_metro_km2 = |population_density_metro_sq_mi = |population_urban = |population_density_urban_km2 = |population_density_urban_sq_mi = |population_blank1_title =Ethnicities |population_blank1 = |population_blank2_title =Religions |population_blank2 = |population_density_blank1_km2 = |population_density_blank1_sq_mi =  |timezone = EET |utc_offset = +2 |timezone_DST = +3 |utc_offset_DST = |coordinates = {{coord|33|58|37|N|35|39|31|E|type:city|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes =  |elevation_m = |elevation_ft =  |postal_code_type =  |postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Daraoun''' ({{langx|ar|درعون|Darʿūn}}) is a village, part of Harissa-Daraoun municipality, located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon.<ref>{{cite web|title=Daraoun - Harissa|url=http://www.localiban.org/article1364.html|website=Localiban|publisher=Localiban|accessdate=2017-11-26|date=2007-07-03}}</ref>

==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.{{sfn|Bakhit|1972|p=275}} Sons or descendants of Abu Nawfal, the 17th-century head of the Khazen family, settled to some extent in Daraoun.{{sfn|van Leeuwen|1994|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=IFDkfiE-ZUcC&pg=PA84 84]}}

In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''Der'an'' as a village located in "Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites".<ref>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/193/mode/1up 193]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{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}} *{{cite book |last1=van Leeuwen |first1=Richard |title=Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khāzin Sheikhs and the Maronite Church, 1736–1840 |date=1994 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden, New York and Koln |isbn=90-04-09978-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFDkfiE-ZUcC}} *{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|authorlink1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|authorlink2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft |title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838| location=Boston|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|volume=3}} {{refend}} {{Keserwan District}}

Category:Populated places in Keserwan District