Kfarfila
Encyclopedia
Kfarfila (also known as Kafr fila,), is a town in the Nabatieh Governorate, al-Nabatiya, or Nabatiye southern Lebanon
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It is one of the 243 towns of Nabatieh Governorate, situated at the northern region of this district, at the other side of Al-Kateh(The cutter); a shallow but wide valley, separating a group of 32 towns from the Sidon District
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Kfarfila sits safe at the bottom of Iqlim al-Tuffah mountains and supervised by Jbaa
, Ain Qana
and Ain Bouswar, rising from sea level to over 582 meters, and away from the town of Nabatieh about 22 km, and about 52 km from the capital of Beirut
, The Town's area real estate
is 3,500 dunums, The population is about 2,500 people half residing in the town and the other half mainly works and lives in Beirut
and neighborliness, the number of voters are 950 (regulations from 1998) and the number of housing units are 445 units.
, Tripoli
, Sidon
and Nabatieh, and the annual production is more than twenty eight tons.
In the south part of the town there is a longsheng pottery, colored glass cups and there is a number of mills, one of them still stands (kfarfila river) one of the Zahrani river streams
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in the town said that it was a religious school in the early 20th century and was sponsored by scholars of a religion, but the school did not last long, then in the early 1950s it was re-used as the official school of the town, Before the 1950 period the education to the sons of the town families of Reading in the 1930s and 1940s was attended by Mr. Ali Abdul-Mageed Ousairan, Sheikh Mohiuddin Elhur, Abdul Ghani Fakih, Sheikh Salman Taki Al Fakih and then Sheikh Mohamed Taqi Al Faqih.
The official beginning of the school year
to the reintroduction in 1944 with a single teacher Moussa Hussein Hammoud, from the town of Kfarmilky followed in the early 1950s Sheikh Aref Elhour, and then Antoine Abu Samra 1957 / 1958. In the early 1960s, presented to the school by teachers Jameel Jizzini, Wafiq Kassem, Muqallad Muqalled, Tawfiq Elhour, Saleh Al-Khayyat, and completed the primary 1970 mm and is now the director Professor Hani Muhammad Elhour and then his successor Professor Ibrahim Fayyad for the year 1987.
The current Director is Professor nazih Khavaja with the knowledge that the school is the only elementary, There is also a branch of the Al Mahdi
private school
s as of the year 1997.
Southern Lebanon
Southern Lebanon is the geographical area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. These two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s...
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It is one of the 243 towns of Nabatieh Governorate, situated at the northern region of this district, at the other side of Al-Kateh(The cutter); a shallow but wide valley, separating a group of 32 towns from the Sidon District
Sidon District
-Cities and towns:*Ain El Delb*Ansariye*Maghdouché*Majdelyoun*Qinarit*Salhieh*Sidon - capital*Tabbaya*Zrarieh...
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Kfarfila sits safe at the bottom of Iqlim al-Tuffah mountains and supervised by Jbaa
Jbaa
Jbaa, , is a town in the Nabatieh Governorate, or Nabatiye southern Lebanon.Jbaa Falls in the hands of the great Safi Mountain, and rises over from the sea level and then begins to rise to in the district "Ein-Elsataoun" Water flowed between the folds, the most gorgeous greenery trees diverse,...
, Ain Qana
Ain Qana
Ain Qana , is a town in the Nabatieh Governorate, al-Nabatiya, or Nabatiye southern Lebanon.Ain Qana located in Central Highlands province of apples , and is of, and is bounded to the north by the village of Jbaa `, Ainboswar and Jarjoua and from the East, and Arabsalim to the South, Kfarfila and...
and Ain Bouswar, rising from sea level to over 582 meters, and away from the town of Nabatieh about 22 km, and about 52 km from the capital of Beirut
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
, The Town's area real estate
Real estate
In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
is 3,500 dunums, The population is about 2,500 people half residing in the town and the other half mainly works and lives in Beirut
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
and neighborliness, the number of voters are 950 (regulations from 1998) and the number of housing units are 445 units.
Onions
The town is famous for cultivation of different kind of onions and foremost the white fancy kind which has been a must for the people of the various areas of the whole country as far as Tyre, ZahléZahlé
Zahlé is the capital and largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. With around 50,000 inhabitants, it is the fourth largest city in Lebanon, after Beirut, Tripoli and Jounieh...
, Tripoli
Tripoli
Tripoli is the capital and largest city in Libya. It is also known as Western Tripoli , to distinguish it from Tripoli, Lebanon. It is affectionately called The Mermaid of the Mediterranean , describing its turquoise waters and its whitewashed buildings. Tripoli is a Greek name that means "Three...
, Sidon
Sidon
Sidon or Saïda is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about 40 km north of Tyre and 40 km south of the capital Beirut. In Genesis, Sidon is the son of Canaan the grandson of Noah...
and Nabatieh, and the annual production is more than twenty eight tons.
Olives
Although the mountainous profile of this town is harsh, the olive trees cultivation is equally successful and popular, with high quality of olive oil, extracted with the traditional Koranian cold technique, Kfarfila is also popular with its fruits as it is known to most locals as the large garden of fruit trees. As the homes rimmed with beautiful gardens and trees spread to its own shops, and miscellaneous Dakkakin on both sides of the main road to the town (saha).Name
Mr. Freiha (famous Lebanese writer) says in his book "The Miagam" That the name is Aramaic, which means "the elephant's village" other meaning of the name is the village of the rift or crude. The latter title perhaps due to the presence of a crack or alleged crack (called Zien) in the higher east part of the town (called Hawara) resulting from an old earthquake according to the elderly parents, which caused a permanent spring giving life to most of the town's agricultural and named Ibn al-Aqil.History
There are many caves in the town that date back to the Phoenicians era and most of the them are cemetery types the first one is located in a place called "Al-srag" and falls northwest of the town and the other three are found to the east of the town including one that has three internal holes and each has two graves inside).In the south part of the town there is a longsheng pottery, colored glass cups and there is a number of mills, one of them still stands (kfarfila river) one of the Zahrani river streams
STREAMS
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Schools
There is an old mosqueMosque
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in the town said that it was a religious school in the early 20th century and was sponsored by scholars of a religion, but the school did not last long, then in the early 1950s it was re-used as the official school of the town, Before the 1950 period the education to the sons of the town families of Reading in the 1930s and 1940s was attended by Mr. Ali Abdul-Mageed Ousairan, Sheikh Mohiuddin Elhur, Abdul Ghani Fakih, Sheikh Salman Taki Al Fakih and then Sheikh Mohamed Taqi Al Faqih.
The official beginning of the school year
Academic term
An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms...
to the reintroduction in 1944 with a single teacher Moussa Hussein Hammoud, from the town of Kfarmilky followed in the early 1950s Sheikh Aref Elhour, and then Antoine Abu Samra 1957 / 1958. In the early 1960s, presented to the school by teachers Jameel Jizzini, Wafiq Kassem, Muqallad Muqalled, Tawfiq Elhour, Saleh Al-Khayyat, and completed the primary 1970 mm and is now the director Professor Hani Muhammad Elhour and then his successor Professor Ibrahim Fayyad for the year 1987.
The current Director is Professor nazih Khavaja with the knowledge that the school is the only elementary, There is also a branch of the Al Mahdi
Mahdi
In Islamic eschatology, the Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will stay on Earth for seven, nine or nineteen years- before the Day of Judgment and, alongside Jesus, will rid the world of wrongdoing, injustice and tyranny.In Shia Islam, the belief in the Mahdi is a "central religious...
private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
s as of the year 1997.