Hsarat

Hsarat (Arabic: حصارات) (also spelled Hisarat, Hasrat, Hsarate, Ḩaşrāt, Hsârâte, Hsarale or Ḩişārāt) is a village in the Byblos District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholics. Between the 1850s and 1920s, nearly a 1000 people left Hsarat in boats and ships and emigrated to Italy, France, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Venezuela^[1] The settlement had 989 registered voters as of 2017.^[2]

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Hsarat حصارات
Hsarat Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 34°10′N 35°41′E / 34.167°N 35.683°E / 34.167; 35.683
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Keserwan-Jbeil
District	Byblos
Highest elevation	641 m (2,103 ft)
Lowest elevation	534 m (1,752 ft)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code	+961 09735...
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1. ^ "Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban" (PDF). Localiban. Localiban. 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
2. ^ "Hsarat". Libandata. 22 July 2019. Archived from the original on 28 September 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2024.

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