Ghosta, Lebanon

Municipality in Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon

Ghosta غوسطا
Municipality
Ghosta Monastery and Church, Lebanon
33°59′28″N 35°40′25″E / 33.99111°N 35.67361°E / 33.99111; 35.67361
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Keserwan-Jbeil
District	Keserwan
Area
• Total	4.61 km² (1.78 sq mi)
Elevation	950 m (3,120 ft)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code	09

Ghosta (Arabic: غوسطا) 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]

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]

References

^ ^a ^b "Ghosta". Localiban. Localiban. 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
^ "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.
^ Bakhit 1972, p. 275.
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 194
^ Khoury, Fayek. (1980). Fifty Years of Journalistic Memories (in Arabic).

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.
Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.