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Rayfoun
Sign in to saveRayfoun (; also spelled Reifun or Raifoun) is a village and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. The village is about north of Beirut. It has an average elevation of 1,050 meters above sea level and a total land area of 189 hectares. Rayfoun's inhabitants are predominantly Maronites. Rayfoun is the hometown of Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir and the Ottoman-era peasant leader Tanyus Shahin.
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It sits within the topics Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon and Populated places in Keserwan District.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- فيطرون
- Region
- محافظة كسروان جبيل
- Country
- لبنان
- Population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Lebanon
- Located in
- Keserwan District
- Area
- 1.89
- Elevation
- 1050
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- Rayfoun
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==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rayfoun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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