Herharaya (alternatively Harhraya, Herhrayya; ) is a township in the municipality and administrative division of Jdaidet Ghazir – Harharaya – Qattine in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in

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. The town is about north of

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. It has an average elevation of above sea level and its total land area is . The municipality of is a member of Municipal Federation of Kesrouane Al Ftouh.

Notable people

Ignatius Ziade Ignatius Ziadé (also Ignace Ziade; ar, إغناطيوس زياده, 26 January 1906 in Herharaya, Lebanon – 31 March 1994 in Beirut, Lebanon) was the Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo and the Maronite Catholic Archeparc ...

(1906–1944), Archbishop of the

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and the

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* Philippe Ziade (born 1976), entrepreneur and honorary consul in

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* * {{Keserwan District Populated places in Keserwan District Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon Melkite Christian communities in Lebanon