Moukhtara
Moukhtara is a small town in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. The town's inhabitants are divided between Druze and Maronites. It is the hometown of Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Al Mukhtārah”, “El Moukhtara”, “El Moukhtâra”, “El Mukhtāra”, and “El-Mukhtarah”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boqaata and Ammatour.
Boqaata
Village
Bakaata is a town located in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, about 45 kilometres southeast of Beirut. Its altitude ranges between 850 m – 950 m high.
Ammatour
Town
Photo: Fabousha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ammatour is a town and municipality in the Shouf District in Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. It lies 57 km southeast of Beirut, at an elevation of between 800 and 1,050 meters above sea level.
Baadarâne
Village
Baadarâne, is an area in Chouf, Mont Liban, Lebanon. Baadarane is 60 kilometres away from Beirut at an elevation of 1,050 meters. Baadarane is a town with an elevation of 1050m.
Moukhtara
- Categories: human settlement and archaeological site
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Moukhtara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المختارة”
- Arabic: “مختارة”
- Dutch: “Moukhtara”
- Dutch: “Moukthara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مختاره”
- French: “Moukhtara”
- Hebrew: “אל-מוח’תארה”
- Irish: “Moukhtara”
- Italian: “Mokhtara”
- Italian: “Mukhtara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moukhtara”
- Persian: “مختاره، الشوف”
- Persian: “مختاره”
- Polish: “Al-Muchtara”
- Polish: “Mukhtara”
- Swedish: “Moukhtara”
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