elevation ~816 m
Bater is in the Chouf District of Mount Lebanon, roughly 34 km from Beirut in a straight line. Its closest Chouf neighbours are Niha (~1.0 km), Jbaa (~2.5 km) and Haret Jandal (~2.7 km).
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Bater is a Chouf-area settlement in Mount Lebanon.
Popular tradition links the name Bater to Cleopatra, who is said to have had a palace nearby. Freyha derives it from the root b-t-r meaning to cut or separate (hence 'the divider'), and notes the biblical 'mountains of Bether' in the Song of Songs; he also suggests a Syriac origin meaning seed of grain. The author argues it was originally written and pronounced 'Bather,' from the Arabic word for water emerging from a spring.
Bater was hurt by the Lebanese conflict of the last quarter of the twentieth century, and returned to ordinary life at the start of the third millennium as reconciliations took hold. Its lands take in the outlying farmstead of Khfeisheh, a name read as Syriac for the separated one.
area ~250 ha · ~61 km from Beirut
أبو حسين، أبو هدير، ثابت، حامد، حمدان، خطار، الزويني، الزين، صافي، عزام، عودة، عودي، فارس، كامل، كيوان، مهدي، بو مهدي، نايب، نرش، هاني، وهبي، جبور، الحداد، غانم
The town's spring, known for how strongly it runs, and the source of its drinking water.
The springs that water the town's vines, olives and fruit trees.
The town of Bater is in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, about 61 km from Beirut, at around 816 m elevation.
Bater is about 61 km from Beirut.
Popular tradition links the name Bater to Cleopatra, who is said to have had a palace nearby. Freyha derives it from the root b-t-r meaning to cut or separate (hence 'the divider'), and notes the biblical 'mountains of Bether' in the Song of Songs; he also suggests a Syriac origin meaning seed of grain. The author argues it was originally written and pronounced 'Bather,' from the Arabic word for water emerging from a spring.
Families associated with Bater include: أبو حسين, أبو هدير, ثابت, حامد, حمدان, خطار, الزويني, الزين, صافي, عزام, عودة, عودي, فارس, كامل, كيوان, مهدي, بو مهدي, نايب, نرش, هاني, وهبي, جبور, الحداد, غانم.
Notable people connected to Bater include Sheikh Said Saad Eddine Hamdan, Selim Abbas Hamdan.
Landmarks in Bater include Nabaa Bater, Ain el-Arayes, Ain el-Qatin, Ain el-Dalbeh, Ain el-Halib and Nabaa el-Nour, Mar Elias Church, Ras el-Nabaa and Nabaa Bater parks, Bater Charitable Dispensary.
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