elevation ~800 m
Hasrout is in the Chouf District of Mount Lebanon, about 50 km from Beirut, about a 45-minute drive. Its closest Chouf neighbours are Aanout (~1.8 km), Matleh (~2.0 km) and Ghraifeh (~2.1 km).
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Hasrout is a town in the Chouf District of Mount Lebanon at about 800 m above sea level roughly 45 km from Beirut.
Fariha considered the name Hasrout to be the feminine plural of the Phoenician word 'hasr', meaning to enclose, fortify and wall in; so Hasrout means 'protected/guarded places'. A similar name appears repeatedly in the Hebrew Bible.
Hasrout's old site was on a small hill on the southern side of the town, called by locals 'Burj al-Hosn', now covered by modern houses; its monuments include large stones arranged as a wall, thought to be foundations of an ancient building, perhaps the fortress to which the town is attributed. Excavations uncovered pottery and bronze artifacts, and the surrounding hills hold rock-cut tombs from the Bronze Age. About a third of its people are Catholic Christians; they were displaced during the civil war of the 1980s, and the Nabil al-Bustani Foundation later funded their return, with the Ministry of the Displaced paying compensation.
أبو مهدي، أحمد، إبراهيم، إسماعيل، جعيد، حسين، حمادة، خطار، الخطيب، دياب، ذياب، سليمان، شاهين، فارس، عبدو، قاسم، مشموشي، سعادة
The old site of Hasrout on a small hill south of the town, now covered by modern houses. Large stones set in a line suggest the foundations of an old building — possibly the fort the town is named for — and excavation for a house on top of it turned up pottery and bronze, including a bronze cosmetic box with a lion carved in relief.
Burial caves and rock-cut tombs with their covers on the hills east of the town, and a burial cave in the limestone on the western slopes towards Aanout that yielded pottery jugs and vessels thought to date to the Bronze Age.
A natural cave in a rock mass in the valley between Hasrout and Aanout, named for the cold drops that seep from its limestone roof.
A mosque whose building is reckoned to the late nineteenth century. A devout man is said to have lived beside it in seclusion, and his tomb became the shrine known as Sheikh el-Jamaa.
The Greek Catholic parish church, destroyed during the war and rebuilt.
~50 km from Beirut · ~45 min drive
The town of Hasrout is in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, at around 800 m elevation.
Hasrout is about 50 km from Beirut, roughly a 45-minute drive.
Fariha considered the name Hasrout to be the feminine plural of the Phoenician word 'hasr', meaning to enclose, fortify and wall in; so Hasrout means 'protected/guarded places'. A similar name appears repeatedly in the Hebrew Bible.
Families associated with Hasrout include: أبو مهدي, أحمد, إبراهيم, إسماعيل, جعيد, حسين, حمادة, خطار, الخطيب, دياب, ذياب, سليمان, شاهين, فارس, عبدو, قاسم, مشموشي, سعادة.
Notable people connected to Hasrout include Hussein al-Khatib, Fawzi Salim Suleiman.
Landmarks in Hasrout include Burj el-Hosn, Rock-cut tombs, Maghrat el-Dalfeh, Hasrout Mosque, Sayyidat Church.
Hasrout lies on the eastern flank of the Iqlim El-Kharroub belt, between the coastal half of Chouf to its west and Mount Chouf to its east. The UN-Habitat road map for the Union of Municipalities of Iqlim El-Kharroub El-Chamali — the union of seventeen lower and coastal Chouf towns running from Jiyeh and Rmaileh on the sea up to Mazboud inland — names Hasrout, alongside Gharifeh and Mount Chouf, as the union's eastern neighbour. Hasrout itself is not a member of that union; it sits just beyond its eastern boundary, in the more mountainous part of the district.
Source: UN-Habitat Lebanon (2023), A Road Map Towards a Socioeconomic Development Plan for the Union of Municipalities of Iqlim El-Kharroub El-Chamali, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.
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