Name | Damour |
---|---|
Native name | الدامور |
Native name lang | ara |
Settlement type | City |
Pushpin map | Lebanon |
Pushpin map alt | Map showing the location of Damour within Lebanon |
Pushpin map caption | Location within Lebanon |
Coordinates type | region:LB_type:city |
Coordinates display | inline,title |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | |
Subdivision type1 | Governorate |
Subdivision name1 | Mount Lebanon Governorate |
Subdivision type2 | District |
Subdivision name2 | Chouf District |
Established title | |
Area total km2 | 10.1 |
Elevation min m | 0 |
Elevation max m | 200 |
Population density km2 | auto |
Timezone1 | EET |
Utc offset1 | +2 |
Timezone1 dst | EEST |
Utc offset1 dst | +3 |
Postal code type | Postal code |
Area code type | Dialing code |
Area code | +961 |
Damour () is a Lebanese Christian town that is 24 kilometres south of Beirut. The name of the town is derived from the name of the Phoenician god Damoros who symbolized immortality (ديمومة in arabic).
In 2009, Damour was selected as the future site of the first artificial island off the coast of Lebanon. The project is set to start construction later this year .
Beirut-based developer, Noor Investment Holding has presented a detailed explanation of the Cedar Island project to the Investment Development Authority of Lebanon (IDAL) and is waiting for approval .
, installed in Nahr el Kaleb to the north of Beirut.]]
It was the capital of the Mount Lebanon between the 17th century and 20th century.
In the 19th century, Damour was the most flourishing Center of the Chouf district region. Its plain was then planted of mulberry and had twelve large manufacturing companies. Ten thousand workers and technicians worked in the natural silk industry. The city has a real fascination for the Lebanese worker and attracts the largest majority of the natives in the Sahel region.
During the last centuries, Damour was located on the central axis of fights and successive wars.
In 1302, after the mamelouks took Arwad Island, on 8 June the same year, the Cypriots landed on the Damour River. A battle took place between the Emir Fakhr al - Din Abdel - Hamid bin Jamaluddin Altnokhi, his brother the Emir Shams al - Din Abdullah accompanied by an army of Muslims against the Cypriot. The battle was won by Crusaders. Fakhr Din Emir was killed, while his brother Shams al - Din fell hostage. He was released after five days for a ransom of three thousand dinars tyriens.
In May 1860, Druze forces commit a massacre of the people.
During the nights of the first world war, inhabitants met the armoured French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc sailors and received medicines, food and other needed supplies.
The city being a strategic crossing point on the road to Beirut, 21 July 1941, was the place of one of the battles that affected Lebanon during the second world war Syria-Lebanon Campaign. Australian troops, progressing towards the North along the coast, take Damour, held by the French Foreign Legion, faithful to the Vichy Government. One cease-fire was concluded at the end of the battle. There were no more obstacles in the direction of Beirut.
In 1942, the New Zealand troops build track Beirut-Haifa on the coast.
January 9, 1976, Palestinians lay siege to the city. January 20, thousands of Palestinians commit a massacre of the inhabitants.(see Damour Massacre)
During Israeli invasion of 1982, the Israeli air force bombed the city which was under the control of the Palestinian militias.
During the Israeli conflict of 2006, the Israeli air force destroyed several bridges on Highway Beirut-Tyre and on the Damour River.
Robert Fisk in his book ¡°Pity the Nation
Category:Populated places in the Mount Lebanon Governorate Category:Chouf District
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