Kfar Nabrakh ( ar, كفر نبرخ ''Kfar Nabrakh'') is a municipality in the
Chouf District of
Mount Lebanon Governorate,
Lebanon
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. It is located 50 kilometers southeast of
Beirut
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.
Kfarnabrakh total land area consists of 941
hectare
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s.
[ Its average elevation is 1,010 meters above sea level.][ Its inhabitants are religiously mixed, with a Druze majority and a Melkite Christian minority.] During the Lebanese Civil War
The Lebanese Civil War ( ar, الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية, translit=Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities a ...
, 64 residents of the village were killed in the violence.[
]
References
Populated places in Chouf District
Melkite Christian communities in Lebanon
Druze communities in Lebanon
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