Beit Chama - Aaqidiyeh ( ar, بيت شاما - العقيدية) is a local authority in the
Baalbek District of the
Baalbek-Hermel Governorate 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 ...
.
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 ''Beit Shama's'' population as being predominantly
Metawileh.
[Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p]
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Beit Chama - Aaqidiyeh
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Populated places in Baalbek District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon
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