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Dahr El Ahmar
ضهر إل أحمر— Village — Location in Lebanon
Dahr El AhmarCoordinates: 33°31′45″N 35°50′55″E / 33.52917°N 35.84861°ECoordinates: 33°31′45″N 35°50′55″E / 33.52917°N 35.84861°E Country 
LebanonGovernorate Beqaa Governorate District Rashaya District Area - Total 3.9 sq mi (10.14 km2) Elevation 3,543 ft (1,080 m) Dahr El Ahmar is a village in Lebanon, situated in the Rashaya District and south of the Beqaa Governorate. It is located near the Syrian border, approximately 6 km from Rashaya and south of Kfar Danis.[1] The population of the village is predominantly Druze.[2] There is a shrine in the village to an important woman in Druze history, Sitt Sarah, the niece of one of the authors of the Epistles of Wisdom, Baha'u d-Dīn as-Samuqī ("al-Muqtana Baha’ud-Dīn").[3] She is remembered for being a great peacemaker.[4]
Archaeological site
Some flints were found 500 metres north of the village in the hills including large axes, scrapers and sickle blades with fine denticulation. This was suggested by Jacques Cauvin and Marie-Claire Cauvin to been a site contemporary with the earliest neolithic levels at Byblos.[5]
References
- ^ Ivan Mannheim (1 July 2001). Syria & Lebanon handbook: the travel guide. Footprint Travel Guides. pp. 603–. ISBN 9781900949903. http://books.google.com/books?id=t9LHVdWLc7gC&pg=PA603. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ British Druze Society - Druze communities in the Middle East
- ^ Fuad I. Khuri (2004). Being a Druze. Druze Heritage Foundation. ISBN 9781904850014. http://books.google.com/books?id=l4LXAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ Intisar J. Azzam (2007). Gender and religion: Druze women. Druze Heritage Foundation. ISBN 9781904850120. http://books.google.com/books?id=gVEMAQAAMAAJ. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ^ Moore, A.M.T. (1978). The Neolithic of the Levant. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. pp. 436–442. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/182.html.
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