Bater is a town in the Chouf area, Mount Lebanon. Chouf App is a utility app for Chouf-area residents — it connects Bater with Chouf-based stores for shopping and with a directory of trusted local trades.
elevation ~816 m
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.
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 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.