Majdel Balhis (مجدل بلهيص) is a village and municipality located in
Rashaya District
Rashaya District ( ar, قضاء راشيا) is an administrative district in the Beqaa Governorate of the Republic of Lebanon.
Most of Rachaya's population are Druze with a Sunni and Shia and Christian
Christians () are people who follow ...
,
Beqaa Governorate,
Lebanon
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. Majdel Balhis is 95 km away from
Beirut
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. Its altitude is 1100 meters above sea level. The area of Majdel Balhis covers 2004 hectares. Majdel Balhis is located on the western slopes of
Mount Hermon.
Majdel Balhis has a large expatriate community in
Ottawa
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in Canada, and the first mosque in that city was founded by a group people from Mejdal Balhis.
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 ''Mejdel Belhis'' as a village in the
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 ...
.
[Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p]
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Populated places in Rashaya District
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