Taraya ( ar, طاريا) is a village in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

. It has an area of and is at an elevation of .

History

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 Taraya's population as being predominantly Metawileh.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p
144
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* Populated places in Baalbek District Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon {{lebanon-geo-stub