Haret Jandal Harat Jandal | |
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  Haret Jandal Location in Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°37′29″N35°36′29″E / 33.62472°N 35.60806°E Coordinates: 33°37′29″N35°36′29″E / 33.62472°N 35.60806°E | |
| Country | Lebanon |
| Governorate | Mount Lebanon |
| District | Chouf |
Haret Jandal is a municipality in the Chouf District of Lebanon. It is 850 meters above sea level. [1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze. [2]
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Haret Hreik is a mixed Shia and Maronite Christian municipality, in the Dahieh suburbs, south of Beirut, Lebanon. It is part of the Baabda District. Once an agricultural village, Haret Hreik lost its rural identity due to the wave of refugees from Southern Lebanon who settled in the town and made it another urban neighborhood of Dahieh.
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Lebanese Druze are Lebanese people who are Druze. The Druze faith is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion, and an ethnoreligious esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as unitarians.
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