{{Infobox settlement | name = Faitroun | native_name = فيطرون | native_name_lang = ara<!-- ISO 639-2 code: "fr" for French, "ara" for Arabic --> | settlement_type = Municipality | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = Lebanon | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Map showing the location of Faitroun within Lebanon | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Lebanon | coordinates = {{coord|33|59|31|N|35|44|15|E|region:LB_type:city|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Lebanon | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = Keserwan-Jbeil | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Keserwan | established_title = <!-- Founded --> | established_date = | founder = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 7.43 | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 1,200 | elevation_min_m = | elevation_max_m = 1350 | population_footnotes = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_note = | timezone1 = EET | utc_offset1 = +2 | timezone1_DST = EEST | utc_offset1_DST = +3 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = | area_code_type = Dialing code | area_code = +961 | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Faitroun''' ({{langx|ar|فيطرون|Fayṭrūn}}; also spelled ''Faytroun'') is a town in the Keserwan District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate. Located 33 kilometers north of Beirut and at an average altitude of 1,200 meters above sea level and its total land area of 743 hectares.<ref name="localiban">{{cite web|title=Faytroun|url=http://www.localiban.org/article4441.html|website=Localiban|publisher=Localiban|accessdate=2016-02-12|date=2008-01-19}}</ref> Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Christians.<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 |access-date=2016-02-12 |page=19 |format=pdf |date=2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724081015/http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/Elections_municipales_libanaises_2010_-_Mont-Liban.pdf |archive-date=2015-07-24 |df= }}</ref> Faitroun has a public school, which had 229 students as of 2008.<ref name="localiban"/> The town is home to a number of hotels and restaurants.
The name of the town is a derivative of the Aramaic words meaning "throne of the lord".<ref name="layout_CAZA KESEROUAN">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mea.com.lb/NR/rdonlyres/6DB1F267-D07B-4612-84D1-D223A69DBE4F/0/keserwan.pdf |title=layout_CAZA KESEROUAN<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2007-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051102012716/http://www.mea.com.lb/NR/rdonlyres/6DB1F267-D07B-4612-84D1-D223A69DBE4F/0/keserwan.pdf |archive-date=2005-11-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some of the main attractions in the town are the Church of Saint George, which was built in the 18th century and the ancient citadel with wells.<ref name="layout_CAZA KESEROUAN"/>
==History== According to the 17th-century historian and Maronite patriarch Istifan al-Duwayhi, Faitroun was settled by Sunni Muslims from the Beqaa Valley in the 16th century.{{sfn|Bakhit|1972|p=75}} Ottoman tax records indicate the village had 23 Muslim households, two bachelors and one imam in 1523, 42 Muslim households, eight bachelors and no imams in 1530, and 43 Muslim households in 1543.{{sfn|Bakhit|1972|p=275}}
In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''Feitirun'' 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>
==Notable people== * Camille Cordahi (1919–2011), footballer * George Kordahi (born 1950), TV presenter
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==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=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}} ==External links== *[http://www.localiban.org/faytroun-4441 Faytroun], localiban {{Keserwan District}}
Category:Populated places in Keserwan District Category:Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon