Hadath el Jebbeh ( ar, حدث الجبة, also known as ''Hadad'', and known locally as ''Hadid'' (حَدِد)), is a town located in

Bsharri District Bsharri District is one of the 7 districts (''qadaa, قضاء'') of the North Governorate, Lebanon. Overview and geography Surrounded by mountains, the Bsharri District sits on cliffs. The district is bordered by the Zgharta and Miniyeh-Danniye ...

in the

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. It was originally settled in 400 A.D., and is situated on a hill at an altitude of 1500 meters, overlooking the

Kadisha valley Kadisha Valley ( ar, وادي قاديشا), also romanized as the Qadisha Valley and also known as the Kadisha Gorge or Wadi Kadisha (french: Ouadi Qadisha), is a gorge that lies within the Bsharri and Zgharta Districts of the North Governora ...

. Hadath el Jebbeh is a summer resort and touristic place, benefiting from its welcoming and friendly local families. The inhabitants of the village are mostly

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, with the presence of two churches in town, the historical St. Daniel church which was built around 1110 CE, and Notre-Dame church built in 1956. At the end of summer, Hadath el Jebbeh celebrates St. Daniel Festival, which takes place every second Sunday of September of each year.

Location, climate and nature

Hadath el Jebbeh is located in

, overlooking Qannoubine Valley. The village is 94 km away from Lebanese Capital,

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, and 36 km away from

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, the largest city in North Lebanon. Hadath el Jebbeh is well known by its cold (sometimes freezing) snowy weather during winter, and its cool weather during summer, which makes it lovely to visit anytime throughout the year, especially in the summer season, where numerous Lebanese consider it one of the best summer residences in Lebanon.

Etymology

Hadath is the name of three localities in Lebanon. To differentiate between the localities, the name of the region is added, Hadath Beirut, Hadath

Baalbeck Baalbek (; ar, بَعْلَبَكّ, Baʿlabakk, Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about northeast of Beirut. It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. In Greek and Roman ...

and finally Hadath el Joubbeh. Other localities by this name exist in the Middle East. The Semitic root of ''Hadath'' means "the new", hence the name could mean "the new town". The common pronunciation of the name is ''Hadad'' or ''Hadid''. It gives an indication to a probable different meaning. ''

Hadad Hadad ( uga, ), Haddad, Adad (Akkadian: 𒀭𒅎 '' DIM'', pronounced as ''Adād''), or Iškur ( Sumerian) was the storm and rain god in the Canaanite and ancient Mesopotamian religions. He was attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BCE. ...

'' was the northwest Semitic storm and rain god and the town could have had a temple dedicated to this god. And the popular tradition claims that the church dedicated to the saint patron of Hadath, Saint Daniel, was built on the remnants of a pagan temple.Lammens, H. (1986). ''Tasrih al-Absar fi Ma Yahtawi Loubnan min Al-Athar'', Dar Nazir Abboud, Beirut. Page 99-100 ''Jebbeh'' is the traditional name of the Kadisha region, called also ''Jebbet Bsharri'' in reference to

Bsharri Bsharri ( ar, بشرّي ''Bšarrī''; syr, ܒܫܪܝ; also Romanized ''Becharre'', ''Bcharre'', ''Bsharre'', (''Bcharre El Arez بشرّي الارز'') is a town at an altitude of about to . It is located in the Bsharri District of the Nort ...

the largest town of this region. The Semitic root ''Gb'' means "well", "deep" and could be a reference to the deep gorges of the Kadisha. In

, other ''Jebbeh'' exist like Jebbet Mnaytra and Jebbet Yanuh.

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Hadath Ej Joubbeh
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www.hadatheljebbeh.com

www.hadath.com
Last retrieved on May 8, 2008. {{Authority control Populated places in the North Governorate Bsharri District Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon

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