Ashqout

Ashqout

Infobox City Lebanon
official_name = Ashqout
native_name = عشقوت


image_size =
image_caption =
governorate = Mount Lebanon Governorate
district = Keserwan District
lat_deg = 33
lat_min = 59
lat_sec = 0
lat_hem = N
lon_deg = 35
lon_min = 42
lon_sec = 0
lon_hem = E
elevation_m = 1250
mapx = 33.9833
mapy = 35.7000

Ashqout (also Ashkout, Achkout, `ashqut, _ar. عشقوت ) is an old Lebanese settlement located in the Keserwan District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. The population is Maronite Catholic. It is the birthplace of Ahmad Faris Shidyaq (1804-1887) and the Maronite Patriarch Paul Peter Massaad (1854–1890).

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