Beit Mellat ( ar, بيت ملات) is a town in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon, close to the border with

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. The population in Beit Mellat are mostly

Maronite The Maronites ( ar, الموارنة; syr, ܡܖ̈ܘܢܝܐ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of the Middle East, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the larges ...

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 village as ''Beit Melat'', whose inhabitants were

, located south of esh-Sheikh Mohammed.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p
185
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Beit Mellat
Localiban {{Akkar District Populated places in Akkar District Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon