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Municipality in Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon
Ghosta غوسطا
Municipality
Ghosta Monastery and Church, LebanonGhosta Monastery and Church, Lebanon
The location of Ghsta as shown within the map of LebanonThe location of Ghsta as shown within the map of LebanonGhostaLocation in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°59′28″N 35°40′25″E / 33.99111°N 35.67361°E / 33.99111; 35.67361
Country Lebanon
GovernorateKeserwan-Jbeil
DistrictKeserwan
Area
 • Total4.61 km (1.78 sq mi)
Elevation950 m (3,120 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code09

Ghosta (Arabic: غوسطا) is a municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is located 36 kilometers north of Beirut. Ghosta's average elevation is 950 meters above sea level and its total land area is 461 hectares. Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholics.

History

Ottoman tax records indicate Ghosta had 11 Christian households in 1523, 12 Christian households and one bachelor in 1530, and 15 Christian households and one bachelor in 1543.

In 1838, Eli Smith noted Ghusta as a village located in Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites.

Ghosta has three schools, two private and one public, with a total of 772 students as of 2008. As of 2008, there were eleven companies with at least five employees operating in the village. It is home to the Congregation of Maronite Lebanese Missionaries and its main monastery, and the birthplace of Lebanese pioneer painter, Daoud Corm (1852 – 1930) and of pioneer Lebanese journalist, Philippe Ziade (1909–2005).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ghosta". Localiban. Localiban. 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  2. "Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban" (PDF). Localiban. Localiban. 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  3. Bakhit 1972, p. 275.
  4. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 194
  5. Khoury, Fayek. (1980). Fifty Years of Journalistic Memories (in Arabic).

Bibliography

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