Andaket, Aandqet, () is a

Maronite Christian Lebanese Maronite Christians (; ) refers to Lebanese people who are members of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, the largest Christian body in the country. The Lebanese Maronite population is concentrated mainly in Mount Lebanon and East Beir ...

village in

Akkar Governorate Akkar Governorate () is the northernmost governorate of Lebanon. It comprises the single district of Akkar, which in turn is subdivided into 121 municipalities. The capital is at Halba. It covers an area of and is bounded by the Mediterranean ...

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

History

In 1838,

Eli Smith Eli Smith (September 13, 1801 – January 11, 1857) was an American Protestant missionary and scholar. Biography Smith was born in Northford, Connecticut, to Eli and Polly (née Whitney) Smith. He graduated from Yale College in 1821 and from A ...

noted Andakid'' as a

Maronite Maronites (; ) are a Syriac Christianity, Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant (particularly Lebanon) whose members belong to the Maronite Church. The largest concentration has traditionally re ...

village, located east of

esh-Sheikh Muhammed Cheikh Mohammad () is a village situated in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. Situated 400 metres above sea level, in between two mountains, it overlooks the Akkar plains and sea. It is made up of approximately 450 houses, with 99% of the population b ...

.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p
185
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Geography

Andaket is located at the mountennes area in the northeast part of the Republic of Lebanon. It is to the north of the Lebanese capital,

Beirut Beirut ( ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the List of largest cities in the Levant region by populatio ...

. It is bordered at the South by

Al-Qoubaiyat Al Qoubaiyat, Koubeiyat, Kobayat or Qoubayat () is the biggest Christianity in Lebanon, Christian village in the Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. Its population is mostly composed of Maronite Christianity in Lebanon, Maronites numbering around 12,000 p ...

, at the East by

Akroum Akroum () is a Sunni Muslim village located in the Akkar District in Lebanon. The area has mountains with many villages on it. It is located at an altitude of approximately 1087 meters. The approximate population of this area is 11,194. Demographi ...

, and the north by Chadra and at the West by Aydamoun.

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Aandqet
Localiban Populated places in Akkar District Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon {{Lebanon-geo-stub