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Dekwaneh

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Dekwaneh (or Dekweneh; ) is a suburb north of Beirut in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. The population is predominantly Maronite Christian. Tel al-Zaatar, an UNRWA administered Palestinian refugee camp housing approximately 50,000-60,000 refugees, and the site of the Tel al-Zaatar massacre were located on the outskirts of the town.

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Place details

Locality
دكوانة
Region
محافظة جبل لبنان
Country
لبنان
Population
0

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Key facts

Settlement.name
Dekwaneh
Settlement.native_name
دكوانة
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ar
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City
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Lebanon
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Map showing the location of Sin el Fil within Lebanon
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Location within Lebanon
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Country
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Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Mount Lebanon Governorate
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District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Matn District
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Time Zone
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GMT +2 (UTC)
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- Summer (DST)
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+3 (UTC)
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Area Code(s)
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(+961) 1

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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Archaeology
  • [[LGBT rights in Lebanon|LGBT rights]]
  • Image gallery
  • Airfield
  • References
  • External links

Dekwaneh (or Dekweneh; ) is a suburb north of Beirut in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. The population is predominantly Maronite Christian. Tel al-Zaatar, an UNRWA administered Palestinian refugee camp housing approximately 50,000-60,000 refugees, and the site of the Tel al-Zaatar massacre were located on the outskirts of the town.

==Archaeology== Dekwaneh I is about northwest of Mar Roucos monastery, in the gullies of (now deforested) pinewood slopes on the west side of a ridge. Material was found by Raoul Describes, who mentioned rock-shelters in the area that were destroyed by quarrying for quicklime. Further collections were found by Auguste Bergy and Peter Wescombe. Some of the flint tools recovered were determined to be Acheulean as well as a large amount of waste and bifaces from the Middle Paleolithic that suggested it was a factory site at that time.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dekwaneh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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