Kfar Fila or Kfarfila (), is a municipality in the

Nabatieh Governorate Nabatieh Governorate (, ') is one of the nine governorates of Lebanon. The area of this governorate is 1,058 km2. The capital is Nabatieh. Districts The governorate is divided into four districts (Aqdiya, singular qadaa) containing 130 mu ...

, () al-Nabatiya, or Nabatiye

southern Lebanon Southern Lebanon () is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s. The Rashaya and Western Beqaa districts, the southernmost distr ...

. It is one of the 243 towns of Nabatieh Governorate, situated at the northern region of this district, at the other side of Al-Kateh(The cutter); a shallow but wide valley, separating a group of 32 towns from the

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. Kfar Fila sits at the bottom of Iqlim al-Tuffah mountains and supervised by

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and Ain Bouswar, rising from sea level to over 582 meters, and away from the town of

Nabatieh Nabatieh (, ', Syriac-Aramaic: ܐܠܢܒܛܝܥ), or Nabatîyé (), is a city of the Nabatieh Governorate, in southern Lebanon. History Nabateans The most accepted theory is related to the Nabateans (spelled النبطي), an ancient Arab ...

about 22 km, and about 60 km from the

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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 ...

, The Town's area real estate is 3,500 dunums, The population is about 2,500 people half residing in the town and the other half mainly works and lives in

and neighborliness, the number of voters are 950 (regulations from 1998) and the number of housing units are 445 units.

Etymology

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says in his book "The Miagam" that the name is

Aramaic Aramaic (; ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai, southeastern Anatolia, and Eastern Arabia, where it has been continually written a ...

, which means "the elephant's village" other meaning of the name is the village of the rift or crude. The latter title perhaps due to the presence of a crack or alleged crack (called Umm Zein) in the higher east part of the town (called Hawara) resulting from an old earthquake according to the elderly parents, which caused a permanent spring giving life to most of the town's agricultural and named Ibn al-Aqil.

History

There are many caves in the town that date back to the

Phoenicians Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon and the Syrian coast. They developed a maritime civi ...

era and most of them are cemetery types the first one is located in a place called "Al-srag" and falls northwest of the town and the other three are found to the east of the town including one that has three internal holes and each has two graves inside). In the south part of the town there is a longsheng pottery, colored glass cups and there is a number of mills, one of them still stands (Kfar Fila river) one of the Zahrani river

streams A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long, large stream ...

Demographics

In 2014

Muslims Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

made up 99.28% of registered voters in Kfar Fila. 96.49% of the voters were

Shia Muslims Shia Islam is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political Succession to Muhammad, successor (caliph) and as the spiritual le ...

. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/كفرفيلا/المذاهب/

Schools

There is an old

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in the town said that it was a religious school in the early 20th century and was sponsored by scholars of a religion, but the school did not last long, then in the early 1950s it was re-used as the official school of the town, Before the 1950 period the education to the sons of the town families of Reading in the 1930s and 1940s was attended by Ali Abdul-Mageed Ousairan, Sheikh Mohiuddin Elhur, Abdul Ghani Fakih, Sheikh Salman Taki and then Sheikh Mohamed Taki. The official beginning of the

school year An academic year, or school year, is a period that schools, colleges and universities use to measure the duration of studies for a given educational level. Academic years are often divided into academic terms. Students attend classes and do rel ...

to the reintroduction in 1944 with a single teacher Moussa Hussein Hammoud, from the town of Kfarmilky followed in the early 1950s Sheikh Aref Elhour. In the early 1960s, presented to the school by teachers Jameel Jizzini, Wafiq Kassem, Muqallad Muqalled, Tawfiq Elhour, Saleh Al-Khayyat, and completed the primary 1970 mm and is now the director Professor Hani Muhammad Elhour and then his successor Professor Ibrahim Fayyad for the year 1987. The current director is Professor nazih Khavaja with the knowledge that the school is the only elementary, There is also a branch of the Al

Mahdi The Mahdi () is a figure in Islamic eschatology who is believed to appear at the Eschatology, End of Times to rid the world of evil and injustice. He is said to be a descendant of Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad, and will appear shortly before Jesu ...

private school A private school or independent school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a State school, public school. Private schools are schools that are not dependent upon national or local government to finance their fina ...

s as of the year 1997.

Landmarks

The most famous landmark is the many caves in the town which date back to the

' time and were built northwest of the town.

Economy

Onions

The town is known for the cultivation of different kind of onions and foremost the white fancy kind which has been a must for the people of the various areas of the whole country as far as Tyre,

Zahlé Zahlé () is a city in eastern Lebanon, and the capital and largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. With around 150,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon, Tripoli and the fourth-largest ...

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Sidon Sidon ( ) or better known as Saida ( ; ) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast in the South Governorate, Lebanon, South Governorate, of which it is the capital. Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre, t ...

and

. The annual production is more than twenty eight tons.

Olives

Although the mountainous profile of this town is harsh, the cultivation of

olive trees The olive, botanical name ''Olea europaea'' ("European olive"), is a species of subtropical evergreen tree in the family Oleaceae. Originating in Asia Minor, it is abundant throughout the Mediterranean Basin, with wild subspecies in Africa ...

is common, with high quality of olive oil, extracted with the traditional Koranian cold technique, Kfar Fila is also popular with its fruits as it is known to most locals as the large garden of fruit trees. As the homes rimmed with gardens and trees spread to its own shops, and miscellaneous Dakkakin on both sides of the main road to the town (saha).

References

discoverlebanon.com

External links

Official web page
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