Kasarnaba ( ar, قصرنبا) is a town in
Baalbek District,
Baalbek-Hermel Governorate,
Lebanon famous for its hilly terrain and Traditional Agricultural practices.
Geography
The town is located at the shoulder of The Western Lebanese Mountain Range just to the East of Mount Sanine specifically and it overlooks the central parts of
Beqaa Valley
The Beqaa Valley ( ar, links=no, وادي البقاع, ', Lebanese ), also transliterated as Bekaa, Biqâ, and Becaa and known in classical antiquity as Coele-Syria, is a fertile valley in eastern Lebanon. It is Lebanon's most important ...
.
History
A Roman Temple is found in this town, called "
Castra El Banaat".
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 Kasarnaba's population to be predominantly
Metawileh.
People in Kasarnaba are traditionally farmers famous for growing vineyards and wild rose flowers for rosewater extraction, in addition to many other traditional Horticultural crops some of which are listed below.
In 1994
Mustafa Dirani was abducted by
Israeli forces
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...
from his home in Kasarnaba. He was held (without charge) by Israel until 2004.
Traditional Crops
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Grapes
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Cherries
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus'', and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet ''Prunus avium'' and the sour ''Prunus cerasus''. The nam ...
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Apricots
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Common Fig
The fig is the edible fruit of ''Ficus carica'', a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world ...
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Roses (for
Rosewater
Rose water ( fa, گلاب) is a flavoured water made by steeping rose petals in water. It is the hydrosol portion of the distillate of rose petals, a by-product of the production of rose oil for use in perfume. Rose water is also used to flavour ...
)
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Tobacco
Landscape
Kasarnaba has many hills creating deep
valleys in between including:
- Wadi El Hawr
- Wadi El Debs
- Wadi El Boss
- Wadi Neita
- Wadi ain el Louis
- wadi ain al chaghour
- wadi al zaraet
- wadi al toghra
- wadi malek
References
Bibliography
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External links
Qsarnaba Localiban
{{Baalbek District
Populated places in Baalbek District