Ghosta, Lebanon

Ghosta (Arabic: غوسطا; also spelled Ghusta) is a municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is located 36 kilometers north of Beirut. Ghosta's average elevation is 950 meters above sea level and its total land area is 461 hectares.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholics.[2]

Ghosta
غوسطا
Ghusta
Municipality
Ghosta Monastery and Church, Lebanon
Ghosta Monastery and Church, Lebanon
The location of Ghsta as shown within the map of Lebanon
The location of Ghsta as shown within the map of Lebanon
Ghosta
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°59′28″N 35°40′25″E
Country Lebanon
GovernorateKeserwan-Jbeil
DistrictKeserwan
Area
 • Total4.61 km2 (1.78 sq mi)
Elevation
950 m (3,120 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code09

History

Ottoman tax records indicate Ghosta had 11 Christian households in 1523, 12 Christian households and one bachelor in 1530, and 15 Christian households and one bachelor in 1543.[3]

In 1838, Eli Smith noted Ghusta as a village located in Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites.[4]

Ghosta has three schools, two private and one public, with a total of 772 students as of 2008. As of 2008, there were eleven companies with at least five employees operating in the village.[1] It is home to the Congregation of Maronite Lebanese Missionaries and its main monastery, and the birthplace of Lebanese pioneer painter, Daoud Corm (1852 – 1930) and of pioneer Lebanese journalist, Philippe Ziade (1909–2005).[5]

See also

References
  1. "Ghosta". Localiban. Localiban. 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  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. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 194
  5. Khoury, Fayek. (1980). Fifty Years of Journalistic Memories (in Arabic).

Bibliography
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