Lehfed

Lehfed

Lehfed

Place in Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon

Lehfed (Arabic: لحفد, also known as Lihfid) is a municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is 55 kilometers north of Beirut. Lehfed has an average elevation of 1000 meters above sea level and a total land area of 542 hectares. There were three companies with more than five employees operating in the village as of 2008.[1] Its population, consisting of 2400 inhabitants, 950 of them being electors, is predominantly Maronite Catholic.[2]
Lehfed is the hometown of the Blessed Stephen Nehmé.

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Families

The families native to Lehfed are Nehmé, Ghanem, Abi Khalil, Khalil, Mhanna, Khaled, Khoury, Ziadeh, Saadeh, Challita, Daou, Fadel, Matar and Nohra.

The families of Nehmé, Ghanem, Matar and Daou are descended from Moussa Al-Ghassani, a native of Al-Nabek, Syria and a descendant of the Ghassanid tribe. They came together from Yanouh in the year 1121.

References

  1. [1]
    "Lehfed". Localiban. Localiban. 2008-01-18. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  2. [2]
    "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.
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