Chbaniyeh

This article is about the village in Lebanon. For the neighborhood in East Jerusalem, see Silwan.

Chbaniyeh (Arabic: الشبانية, also spelled Shbaniyeh or Ishbaniyya) is a municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. It is 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of Beirut. Chbaniyeh has an average elevation of 860 metres (2,820 ft) above sea level and a total land area of 485 hectares.^[1] It has a religiously-mixed population Maronites, Melkites and Druze.^[2]

Chbaniyeh الشبانية Shbaniyeh, Ishbaniyya
Chbaniyeh, 2011
Chbaniyeh Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°51′23″N 35°36′45″E
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Mount Lebanon
District	Baabda
Area
• Total	860 ha (2,130 acres)
Elevation	485 m (1,591 ft)

References

1. "Chbaniyeh". Localiban. Localiban. 2007-12-17. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
2. "Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban" (PDF). Localiban. Localiban. 2010. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2020-09-29.

Bibliography

• Abu-Husayn, Abdul-Rahim (1985). Provincial Leaderships in Syria, 1575–1650. Beirut: American University of Beirut. ISBN 9780815660729.