Kfar Dounin or Kfardounin () is municipality in

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, 102 km from the capital

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and 580 m from sea coast remote. Adjacent villages: Deir Kifa, Alkaline,

Kherbet Selem Kherbet Selem () is a municipality in southern Lebanon. The municipality of Kherbet Selem is located in the Kaza of Bint Jbeil, one of the eight mohafazats (governorates) of Lebanon. Khirbet Selm is 104 kilometers (64.6256 mi) away from Be ...

, Deir Intar. It is considered first of villages in Bent Jbeil district of

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Governorate. Its population is 6000 people.

History

In 1875

Victor Guérin Victor Guérin (; 15 September 1821 – 21 September 1890) was a French people, French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included ...

noted: "Near a little mosque are well-cut stones, the remains of a demolished church, of which there also survive fragments of monolithic columns and several broken capitals, strewing the soil in several places, and especially near the Sheikh's house.' He estimated that the village had 350 to 400

Metawileh Lebanese Shia Muslims (), communally and historically known as ''matāwila'' (, plural of ''mutawālin''; pronounced as ''metouéle'' in Lebanese Arabic), are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role ...

inhabitants. In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it as: "A village, built of stone, containing about 150

, on a hill, surrounded by figs, olives, and arable land. The water is obtained from a spring near and cisterns in the village." At the beginning of March 1986 a

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soldier serving with

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was shot and injured by an Israeli soldier in Kfar Dounin. The Israelis had launched a search operation, the largest since their withdrawal to their security zone in June 1985, looking for two of their soldiers who had been captured. Two Israelis were killed in the operation.

Demographics

In 2014

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made up 98.91% of registered voters in Kfar Dounin. 95.83% of the voters were Shiite Muslims. The town has a population of about 6,000, though only 1,500 live in the village year round.

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External links

*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2
IAAWikimedia commons
Localiban {{Bint Jbeil District Populated places in the Israeli security zone 1985–2000 Populated places in Bint Jbeil District Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon