Aintoura
Aintoura is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 18 kilometers east of Beirut. The average elevation of Aintoura is 230 meters above the sea level and its total land area is 71 hectares.- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “‘Ain Tūra”, “‘Anţūrah”, “‘Aynţūrah”, “Aantoûra”, “Ainture”, and “Antura”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lower Grotto and Bkerké.
Lower Grotto
Cave
The Jeita Grotto is a system of two separate, but interconnected, karstic limestone caves spanning an overall length of nearly 9 kilometres. The caves are situated in the Nahr al-Kalb river valley within the locality of Jeita, 18 kilometres north of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Bkerké
Monastery
Bkerké is the episcopal see of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, located 350 m above the bay of Jounieh, northeast of Beirut, in Lebanon.
Marist College Champville
College
The Collège Mariste Champville is a private Marist Roman Catholic and French-language educational institution set in Dik El Mehdi, Matn District, Lebanon. Marist College Champville is situated 3 km southwest of Aintoura.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ain el-Rihaneh and Jeita.
Ain el-Rihaneh
Village
Ain el-Rihaneh is a town and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. The town is about 21 kilometres north of Beirut.
Jeita
Jeita is a town and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. The town is about 20 kilometres north of Beirut.Zouk Mikael
Town
Zouk Mikael is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon. Its inhabitants are predominantly Melkite and Maronite Catholics.
Aintoura
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.95988° or 33° 57′ 36″ north
Longitude
35.63514° or 35° 38′ 7″ east
Elevation
228 metres (748 feet)
Open location code
8G5QXJ5P+X3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Aintoura” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عينطورة”
- Armenian: “Այնթուրա”
- Cebuano: “Aïntoûra”
- Dutch: “Aintoura”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عينطوره”
- French: “Aintoura”
- French: “Antoura”
- German: “Aintoura”
- Greek: “Αϊντουρά”
- Irish: “Aintoura”
- Italian: “Antoura (Kisrawan)”
- Italian: “Antoura”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aintoura”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Antoura”
- Norwegian: “Aintoura”
- Persian: “عینطورة”
- Persian: “عینطوره”
- Swedish: “Aïntoûra”
- Urdu: “عینطورہ”
- “Aantoura”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lebanese Canadian University and Aintoura Municipality.
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