Dbayeh

Dbayeh in Arabic (ضبية), is a town located on the Mediterranean sea in the Matn District, Mount Lebanon governorate, between Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, and Jounieh (a tourist port ), almost all the population (18 000) is Christian excluding some Gulf Arab Muslims who reside in Dbayeh during the summer (50m - 12 km from Beirut).

The "Dog River" cuts through Dbayeh, a small town that lies at the foot of Mount Lebanon. The area surrounding the river is historically significant where invading civilizations carved their presence into the rocks along its banks. Dbayeh is not far from Jounieh and is currently witnessing tourist and commercial development particularly along its shoreline.

Zouk Al Khrab, Haret Al Bellane, and Awkar are a part of Dbayeh

Commerce

Dbayeh is very known for its tourist commercial buildings like: Hôtel Le Royal Dbayeh, Holiday Tower, Résidence de France, Burj Babel restaurant, Chopsticks restaurant, Golden Beach, ABC Dbayeh, Le Mall, Boutique Mall, Spinneys Mall and Gigieffe Superstore

Education

~St. Rita School

~Dbayeh Official School

history

The name Dbayeh originates from a Phoenician word meaning a female deer. Due to its location on the Mediterranean sea, Dbayeh historically has been a passage for various civilizations and cultures that have left their history engraved on the rocks of Zouk Khrab and Nahr el Kalb.

With the establishment of the Beirut water company in 1870 in Dbayeh, followed by the establishments of several coffee shops and houses located near the water canals of the company, the area started its development towards the modern day Dbayeh. These next houses, along the railway between Beirut and Maameltein has made Dbayeh a first class tourist center attracting visitors from Beirut, the mountains, and the surrounding areas to spend short vacations and relaxing weekends in Dbayeh.

The Beirut water company in Dbayeh was established around 1870 by a British- French- Belgian- company to distribute fresh drinking water to Beirut. Dbayeh has benefited from the excess water to help speed up the further development of agriculture, construction, and tourism in the area and its surroundings. Tourism in the area cooled down during the recession of the second world war and almost disappeared with the construction of the main highway between Nahr el Mot- Nahr el Kalb which started in 1954.

External links

• Official La Marina Page
• Dbayeh
• Dbayeh, articles from UNWRA

Palestine refugee camps locations and populations as of 2015[1]  Gaza Strip 518,000 UNRWA refugees  West Bank 188,150 UNRWA refugees  Syria 319,958 UNRWA refugees  Lebanon 188,850 UNRWA refugees  Jordan 355,500 UNRWA refugees Al-Shati (Beach camp) 87,000 Bureij 34,000 Deir al-Balah 21,000 Jabalia 110,000 Khan Yunis 72,000 Maghazi 24,000 Nuseirat 66,000 Rafah 104,000 Canada Camp closed Aqabat Jaber 6,400 Ein as-Sultan 1,900 Far'a 7,600 Fawwar 8,000 Jalazone 11,000 Kalandia 11,000 Am'ari 10,500 Deir 'Ammar 2,400 Dheisheh 13,000 Aida 4,700 Al-Arroub 10,400 Askar 15,900 Balata 23,600 'Azza (Beit Jibrin) 1,000 Ein Beit al-Ma' (Camp No. 1) 6,750 Tulkarm camp 18,000 Nur Shams 9,000 Jenin camp 16,000 Shuafat camp 11,000 Silwad Sbeineh 22,600 Khan Eshieh 20,000 Neirab 20,500 Homs 22,000 Jaramana camp 18,658 Daraa camp 10,000 Hama camp 8,000 Khan Dannun 10,000 Qabr Essit 23,700 Unofficial camps Ein Al-Tal 6,000 Latakia Camp 10,000 Yarmouk 148,500 Bourj el-Barajneh 17,945 Ain al-Hilweh 54,116 El Buss 11,254 Nahr al-Bared 5,857 Shatila 9,842 Wavel 8,806 Mar Elias 662 Mieh Mieh 5,250 Beddawi 16,500 Burj el-Shemali 22,789 Dbayeh camp 4,351 Rashidieh 31,478 Zarqa camp 20,000 Jabal el-Hussein 29,000 Amman New Camp (Wihdat) 51,500 Souf 20,000 Baqa'a 104,000 Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti camp) 22,000 Irbid camp 25,000 Jerash camp 24,000 Marka 53,000 Talbieh 7,000

Coordinates: 33°57′N 35°36′E / 33.950°N 35.600°E / 33.950; 35.600

1. ↑ "Camp Profiles". unrwa.org. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Retrieved 2 July 2015.