also spelled Zaarourieh · elevation ~642 m
Zaarouriyeh is in the Chouf District of Mount Lebanon, roughly 31 km from Beirut in a straight line. Its closest Chouf neighbours are Aanout (~1.9 km), Mazmoura (~2.0 km) and Bkifa (~2.2 km).
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Zaarouriyeh is a Chouf-area settlement in Mount Lebanon.
Zaarouriyeh took its name from the hawthorn tree (zaarour), a recent naming given when the village was settled during the later historical centuries. The hawthorn is a well-known wild shrub with a small round red fruit containing a hard pit.
Though its name is recent, the area has notable archaeological remains, including rock-cut sarcophagi and the ruins of an old walled town the locals call 'Daiaa al-Tahta', dated by researchers to the Roman period. The town saw the displacement of its Christian inhabitants during the events of the last two decades of the twentieth century.
~57 km from Beirut
أبو ضاهر، بو ضاهر، إسماعيل، حسنون، ربيع، الزين، شمس الدين، صنديد، عبد الرحيم، عثمان، غندور، فرج، نصر الدين، حوقا، رزق، صالح، قبلان
The remains of an old town on a hill once ringed by walls, dated by researchers to the Roman period, with building foundations, rooms of varying size and a rock-cut stair leading to a carved seat that may have belonged to an open-air temple terrace.
Three rock-cut burial caves with sarcophagi carved inside them, with further burial caves on the eastern slope of the hill.
Springs rising in the low ground around the town; Ain el-Dayaa runs out from between the rocks into a channel.
Fossilised shells buried in the sedimentary layers and set in the rock of the town’s slopes.
The town of Zaarouriyeh is in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, about 57 km from Beirut, at around 642 m elevation.
Zaarouriyeh is about 57 km from Beirut.
Zaarouriyeh took its name from the hawthorn tree (zaarour), a recent naming given when the village was settled during the later historical centuries. The hawthorn is a well-known wild shrub with a small round red fruit containing a hard pit.
Families associated with Zaarouriyeh include: أبو ضاهر, بو ضاهر, إسماعيل, حسنون, ربيع, الزين, شمس الدين, صنديد, عبد الرحيم, عثمان, غندور, فرج, نصر الدين, حوقا, رزق, صالح, قبلان.
Notable people connected to Zaarouriyeh include Asem Abu Daher, Salem Abu Daher, Osman Khazaai Osman, Dr. Mahmoud Nasr al-Din.
Landmarks in Zaarouriyeh include Dayaat el-Tahta, Burial caves at El-Bustan and Jall el-Maghara, Ain el-Hakimiyeh, Ain el-Hajal and Ain el-Dayaa springs, Fossil beds.
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