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]
The qass Jirjis Khayr Allah Istifān founded in 1660 the monastery of 'Ayn Warqa with the support of the Khazen sheiks.[4] The monastery was transformed in a college according to the model of the Maronite College in Rome in the late eighteenth century.[4][5]
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Ghusta as a village located in Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites.[6]
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).[7]
See also
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.
- ^ a b Leeuwen 1994, p. 275.
- ^ Pizzorusso, Giovanni; Girard, Aurélien (2017). "The Maronite college in early modern Rome: Between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Letters". In Chambers, L.; O’Connor, T (eds.). Collegial Communities in Exile. Education, migration and Catholicism in early modern Europe. Manchester Scholarship Online.
- ^ 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.
- Leeuwen, Richard Van (1994). Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khāzin Sheikhs and the Maronite Church, 1736-1840. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-09978-4. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
- 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.
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