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Encyclopedia Britannica



HASBEYA, or HASBEIYA

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 49 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HASBEYA, or HASBEIYA , a town of the
Druses
 , about 36 m. W. of Damascus, situated at the foot of Mt. Hermon in Syria, overlooking a deep
amphitheatre
  from which a
brook
  flows to the Hasbani. The
population
  is about 5000 (4000 Christians). Both sides of the valley are planted in terraces with olives, vines and other fruit trees. The grapes are either dried or made into a kind of syrup. In 1846 an American
Protestant
  mission was established in the town. This little community suffered much persecution at first from the Greek
Church
 , and afterwards from the
Druses
 , by whom in 186o nearly loco Christians were massacred, while others escaped to Tyre or Sidon. The castle in Hasbeya was held by the crusaders under
Count
  Oran; but in 1171 the Druse emirs of the
great
  Shehab family (see DRUSES) recaptured it. In 1205 this family was confirmed in the lordship of the town and
district
 , which they held till the Turkish authorities took possession of the castle in the ,9th century. Near Hasbeya are
bitumen
  pits let by the government; and to the north, at the source of the Hasbani, the ground is volcanic. Some travellers have attempted to identify Hasbeya with the biblical Baal-Gad or Baal-Hermon.


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