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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningBatrounFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchThe coastal city of Batroûn (Arabic: ÇáÈÊÑæä) located in North of Lebanon is one of the oldest cities of the world. The name Batroun derives from or Greek Botrys (also Latinized as Botrus).Today, the town boasts tens of historic churches, both Catholic and Greek Orthodox. The town is also a major beach resort with a vibrant nightlife. Batroun has been also famous, from the early twentieth century, for its lemonade which is sold by almost all food shops on main street. As Bothrys it still is a Roman Catholic (Latin rite) titular see situated in the former Roman province of Phoenicia.[edit]HistoryBothrys is the Greek name of a Fenician city on the seashore near Cape Lithoprosopon that was founded by the Phoenicians on the coast some miles North of Gebal Byblos on the southern side of the bold promontory called in classic times Theoprosopon. It is said to be founded by Ithobaal I (Ethbaal), king of Tyre, whose daughter Jezabel (897-866 B.C.) married Ahab (Menander, in Josephus, Ant, VIII, xiii, 2).It is mentioned by the ancient geographers Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy, Stephanus Byzantius, Hierocles, etc. The city belonged under Roman rule to Phoenicia Prima province, and became a suffragan of Tyre in the Patriarchate of Antioch.In 551 it was destroyed by an earthquake, on which occasion the cape cracked in the very middle so that quite a large harbor was opened (Malalas, Chronogr., XVIII, in P.G., XCVII, 704). Theophanes, relating the same event (ad an. 543), calls the city Bostrys, which form is also found elsewhere. Three Greek bishops are known: Porphyrius in 451, Elias about 512 and Stephen in 553 (Lequien, II, 827). According to a Greek Notitia episcopatuum, the see still existed in the tenth century and was then called Petrounion. Since the Muslim Caliphate its Arabic name is Batroun.A medieval archaeological site at Batroun is the ruined crusader castle of Mousaylaha which is constructed on an isolated massive rock with steep sides protruding in the middle of a plain surrounded by mountains.In the early 20th century there were 2,500 city inhabitants (1,200 Maronites, 1,200 Orthodox). Under Ottoman rule it was the centre of a caza in the mutessariflik of Lebanon and the seat of a Maronite diocese, suffragan to the Maronite patriarchate. There were 60,000 Catholics, 50 churches or chapels, 30 priests, 1 seminary, 64 elementary schools and 12 monasteries of Baladites, Aleppines and monks of St. Isaiah in the diocese.[edit]Sources and referencesThis article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia. [1][edit]External linksFind more information on Batroun by searching Wikipedias sister projects: Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary Textbooks from Wikibooks Quotations from Wikiquote Source texts from Wikisource Images and media from Commons News stories from WikinewsOfficial WebsiteBatroun.com - Batroun Official We
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