Remhala
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Remhala is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Aley
Aley
Aley is a picturesque town in Mount Lebanon. It is located 17 km uphill from Beirut, just south of the summer resort of Bhamdoun and north of the strategic town of Souk El Gharb.-Demographics:...

 - Lebanon
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

 (Mount Lebanon
Mount Lebanon
Mount Lebanon , as a geographic designation, is a Lebanese mountain range, averaging above 2,200 meters in height and receiving a substantial amount of precipitation, including snow, which averages around four meters deep. It extends across the whole country along about , parallel to the...

).

Remhala is of syriac
Syriac language
Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from...

 etymology
Etymology
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 meaning a sandy hill. It is situated on a sandy hill, on the shoulder of a valley, surrounded by four mountain
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

s.

It has a moderate climate
Climate
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 and is habitable in winter and summer.
Its altitude
Altitude
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 ranges between 250m above sea level
Sea level
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, at Jisr Al-Kadi, to 700m above sea level at Kabreshmoun.
Families: Yazbeck – Nassar – Daher – Rizk – Saad – Al Khoury – Raad – Abi Abdallah – Allam – Al Zein.

عائلاتها: يزبك – نصار – ضاهر – رزق – سعد – الخوري – رعد – ابي عبد الله – علام – الزين.
اسم رمحالا سرياني الاصل، معناه: تلة رمل: حيث تقع على تلةٍ رمليةٍ على كتف وادٍ بين اربعة جبال

External links

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