Daraoun ( ar, درعون) is a village, part of
Harissa-Daraoun municipality, located in the
Keserwan District of the
Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in
Lebanon.
History
Ottoman tax records indicate Daraoun had seven Christian households and three Christian bachelors in 1523, sixteen Muslim households and one
imam
Imam (; ar, إمام '; plural: ') is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a worship leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Islamic worship services, lead prayers, ser ...
in 1530, and ten Christian households and three Christian bachelors in 1543. Sons or descendants of Abu Nawfal, the 17th-century head of the
Khazen family, settled to some extent in Daraoun.
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 ''Der'an'' as a village located in "Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites".
[Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p]
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Populated places in Keserwan District
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