Dbayeh

Dbayeh (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.

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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

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

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