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Baraashit (), also spelt Brashit, is a municipality located in the Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of southern Lebanon, ca. southeast of Tibnin and about from Beirut. The village sits on an elevation of above sea level. The town has a mixed population of Shi'a and Christians.

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Baraashit (), also spelt Brashit, is a municipality located in the Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of southern Lebanon, ca. southeast of Tibnin and about from Beirut. The village sits on an elevation of above sea level. The town has a mixed population of Shi'a and Christians.

==History== Baraashit is identified with Barashta (), a place referenced in the Baraita on the "Boundaries of the Land of Israel" as part of the delineation of the northwestern border of Jewish resettlement following the return from Babylonian exile. Scholarly analysis suggests that this text likely describes a later era, possibly the Hasmonean or Herodian periods, during the 2nd or 1st century BCE. Additionally, the place is documented in the 3rd-century Mosaic of Rehob.

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