Ras Nhash

Ras Nhash
راس نحاش
Municipality
Ras Nhash is located in Lebanon
Ras Nhash
Ras Nhash
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 34°16′58″N 35°42′54″E / 34.28278°N 35.71500°E / 34.28278; 35.71500
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNorth Governorate
DistrictBatroun
Area
 • Total3.83 km2 (1.48 sq mi)
Elevation
300 m (1,000 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Ras Nhash (Arabic: راس نحاش, romanizedRās Nḥash; also spelled Ras Nahache or Ras Nahhach) is a town and municipality located in the Batroun District of the North Governorate in Lebanon. It is about 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of Beirut.[1] It has an average elevation of 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level and a total land area of 383 hectares.[1] It is located immediately north of the Chekka cape. Ras Nhash's inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.[2]

History

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The Ottomans, who ruled the area of modern Lebanon from 1517 until 1918, settled Sunni Muslim Kurds at Ras Nhash and other villages in the wider Koura area south of Tripoli in 1588 to protect its coast from European naval incursions.[3] The best known Kurdish emir of Ras Nhash was a certain Musa, who was the closest local ally of Yusuf Sayfa, the on–and–off governor of Tripoli in 1579–1625.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Ras Nahhach". Localiban. Localiban. 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  2. ^ "Elections municipales et ikhtiariah" (pdf). Localiban. Localiban. 2010. p. 22. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  3. ^ Abu-Husayn 1985, p. 29, note 54.
  4. ^ Abu-Husayn 1985, p. 29.

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