Kfarshima
Place in Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kfarshima (Arabic: كفرشيما), also spelled Kfarchima, is a town in the Baabda District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, southeast of Beirut and is part of Greater Beirut. The town is populated by Lebanese Christians: mainly Melkite Greek Catholic and Maronites, with smaller communities of Greek Orthodox and Protestant Evangelical Christians. Kfarshima was subject to heavy bombing during the Lebanese civil war since it was a primary fault line.
Kfarshima
كفرشيما | |
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Coordinates: 33°48′55″N 35°32′0″E | |
Country | Lebanon |
Governorate | Mount Lebanon Governorate |
District | Baabda District |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | +3 |
Kfarshima is the birthplace of the composers musicians and singers, Philemon Wehbi, Halim el-Roumi and Melhem Barakat, and the singers Marie Sleiman, and Majida El Roumi. Also the Birthplace of the Philosopher Shibli Shumayyil (Chibli Chemayel). It was also the hometown for Lebanese singer Issam Rajji.