Kaitouly

Kaitouly (also, Kaitouli, Qaytouli. Arabic:" قيتولي" مصيف الآلهة) is a village in the Jezzine District of South Governorate in Lebanon. Kaitouly is about 72 km from the capital Beirut.

Place in South Governorate, Lebanon

33°32′15″N 35°33′07″E / 33.53750°N 35.55194°E / 33.53750; 35.55194Country

LebanonGovernorateSouth GovernorateDistrictJezzine DistrictElevation

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950 m (3,120 ft)Distance from the Capital Beirut72 km

Etymology

Kaitouly come from a Syriac word which means "Gods residence".^[2]

Monuments

Monuments in Kaitouly include Mar Mikhael (Saint Michael) ancient church (built around 1811), heritage houses, an old press, ruins of an old press, and that of old mills.^[3]

Natural attractions

A visitor to the area can find human traces in the nature such as coal quarries and mines, and purely natural spots including the Mar Gergess (Saint George) spring, the Al-Houwwa (Arabic for pit) in the area of Dahr Al-Makla'a, and the pine woods dispersed around the village.^[4]

Notable figures

Ounsi el-Hajj^[5] - Poet
Hector Hajjar - Minister of Social Affairs

Developmental projects

Of the developmental projects that are helping Kaitouly:

The UNDP GEF Carob Project^[6]
The Baladi Program chocolate production workshop funded by the USAID^[7]

Geology

From a geological point of view, the land of Kaitouly is principally made of sediments that originate from the event of the formation of the Mount Lebanon where parts of the crust was raised from below the Mediterranean Sea to elevations reaching 3,088 m at the Qurnat as Sawda'.

Sedimentary rocks found in Kaitouly and containing fossiled marine creatures
A close-up view of sedimentary rock above showing remains of seashells

References

^ South Lebanon (PDF). p. 32. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
^ Freyha, Anis (1996). A Dictionary of the Names of Towns and Villages in Lebanon (Fourth ed.). Librairie du Liban. p. 143.
^ South Lebanon (PDF). p. 29. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
^ South Lebanon (PDF). p. 29. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
^ "Lebanese poet Ounsi el-Hajj, 77, dies". Al Akhbar. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
^ "Carob Grinder for Kaitouly Village". UNDP. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
^ "1 Building Alliance for Local Advancement, Development and Investment – BALADI Project Funded by the United States Agency for International Development – USAID List of New Selected Projects under Ren é Moawad Foundation Scope & Caritas Lebanon Scope" (PDF). Baladi. Retrieved 5 June 2017.