Ashqout

Ashqout (Arabic: عشقوت; also spelled Ashkout, Achqout, `Ashqut) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is located 31 kilometers north of Beirut. Ashqout's average elevation is 1,000 meters above sea level and its total land area is 588 hectares.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholic, with Christians from other denominations in the minority.[2]

Ashqout
عشقوت
Municipality
Map showing the location of Ashqout within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Ashqout within Lebanon
Ashqout
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33.987353°N 35.707626°E / 33.987353; 35.707626
CountryLebanon
GovernorateKeserwan-Jbeil
DistrictKeserwan
Area
 • Total7.88 km2 (3.04 sq mi)
Elevation
1,250 m (4,100 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+961

Ottoman tax records indicate Ashqout had 43 Christian households in 1523, 43 Christian households and seven bachelors in 1530, and 33 Christian households and 14 bachelors in 1543.[3]

The town has three schools, one public and two private, in the town, with a total of 739 students as of 2008.[1] The El-Hajj Hospital, which has 28 beds, is located in Ashqout.[1] It is the birthplace of Ahmad Faris Shidyaq (1804–1887); Paul Peter Massad (1806–1890); and Rayyane Tabet (born 1983).[4]

References
  1. "Aachqout". Localiban. Localiban. 2008-01-18. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
  2. "Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban" (PDF). Localiban. Localiban. 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  3. Bakhit 1972, p. 275.
  4. "Rayyane Tabet's first US museum commission opens at the Walker". Artdaily.com. June 12, 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-02.

Bibliography
  • Bakhit, Muhammad Adnan Salamah (February 1972). The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
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