Ferzol ( ar, فرزل), also spelled Forzol, Ferzul or Fourzol, is a village located in the Zahlé District of the Beqaa Governorate in

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. El Fourzol is situated south of

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, and west of

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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 Ferzol's population being

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.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p
143
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* Populated places in Zahlé District {{lebanon-geo-stub