Beino - Qboula ( ar, بينو - قبولا) is an area in the
Akkar district in
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
. Beino has a total area of around 20 Square kilometers with a population of 2500.
History
In 1838,
Eli Smith
Eli Smith (born September 13, 1801, in Northford, Connecticut, to Eli and Polly (Whitney) Smith, and died January 11, 1857, in Beirut, Lebanon) was an American Protestant missionary and scholar. He graduated from Yale College in 1821 and from Andov ...
noted the villages as ''Binu'' and Kubula, located west of
esh-Sheikh Mohammed. The inhabitants in both villages were
Greek Orthodox Christians.
[Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p]
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In 2009 there were 2,965 eligible voters in Beino, and 384 in Qboula. The population in Qboula were all Greek Orthodox Christians, while the population of Beino were Greek Orthodox "and other confessions".
Notable persons
* Issam Fares
Issam Fares (born 1937) is a Lebanese businessman, a former member of the Lebanese Parliament and deputy prime minister of Lebanon.
In 1954, at the age of seventeen, Fares left his homeland and found a job as a clerk at a catering and food servic ...
References
Bibliography
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External links
Beino - Qboula
Localiban
{{Akkar District
Populated places in Akkar District
Eastern Orthodox Christian communities in Lebanon