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Nice
place
Very
Lovely
square
in
Deir
el
Qamar
surrounded
by
historical
buildings
Crusader
periodEdit
The
oldest
written
reference
to
Deir
el
Qamar
(Deir
elcamar or Deir
elchamar)
goes
back
to
1257
and
1261
in
the
deeds
of Julian
of
Shouf and Andrew
of
Shouf selling
their
lands
and
villages
in
their
lordship
of
Shouf
Deir
al-Qamar (Arabic: دير
القمر),
meaning
"Monastery
of
the
Moon"
is
a
city
south-east
of Beirut in
south-central Lebanon.
It
is
located
five
kilometres
outside
of Beiteddine in
the Chouf
District of
the Mount
Lebanon
Governorate at
800
m
of
average
altitude
During
the
16th
to
18th
centuries,
Deir
al-Qamar
was
the
capital
and
the
residence
of
the Emirate
of
Mount
Lebanon.
It
is
also
notable
for
its
15th-century Fakhreddine
Mosque, Fakhreddine
II
Palace,
and
the
palace
of
the
Emir Yusuf
Shihab -
today
housing
the
Municipal
Council.[2] A
17th-century synagogue is
still
standing
in
the
village,
although
closed
to
the
public.
During
its
peak,
the
city
was
the
centre
of
Lebanese
literary
tradition.
It
was
the
first
village
in
Lebanon
to
have
a
municipality
in
1864,
and
it
is
the
birthplace
of
many
well
known
personalities,
such
as
artists,
writers,
and
politicians.
It
was
the
winter
capital
of
the Druze Cancimat[clarification
needed] of
Lebanon
(1840-1860),
the
summer
capital
being Baakleen.
People
from
all
religious
backgrounds
lived
there
and
the
town
had
a
mosque,
synagogue
and
Christian
churches.
In
the
year
1860,
Deir
al-Qamar
was
destroyed
during
the civil
war between
Druze
and
Christians
during
which
the
town
was
set
ablaze.[3] Napoleon
III sent
a
French
contingent
to
rebuild
it,
recalling
France
ancient
role
as
protector
of
the
Christians
in
the
Ottoman
Empire
as
established
by
a
treaty
in
1523.
In
1864,
Deir
el-Qamar
elected
the
first
municipality
in
the
Arab
provinces
of
the
Ottoman
Empire
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