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Kfarfila is a town in
the Muhafazat of Nabatieh (governorates)- Lebanon.
Kfarfila
sits safe at the bottom of Iqlim al-Tuffah mountains and
supervised by Jbaa, Ain qana and Ain Bosswar.
rising from the sea level to over 562 meters and away from the town of
nabatia about 22 km, and about 65 km from the capital city Beirut.
The town is famous for cultivation of different onions and
foremost White fancy Kind which has been a must for the people of the
various areas as Sidon and Nabatia, and the annual production is more than
twenty tons, The Town's area real estate is 3500 dunums(1000m2), The population is
about 2500 people half residing in the town and the other half mainly works
and lives in Beirut and neighbor lines the number of voters is 950
(regulations for 1998) and the number of housing units are 436 units.
Kfarfila is viewed to the neighboring towns as a large
garden full of fruit trees, as the homes
rimes with it's beautiful Fig, grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, Pears and almond trees
which are spread to the town shops,
and miscellaneous dakakin on both sides of
the main road to the town (saha).
The Name:
Mr. Freiha (Famous Lebanese writer) says in his book
"Mi3gam": That the name is Laramie, which means "the elephant village" also
he stated that other meaning of the name is the village of the rift or
immature. The latter title perhaps due to the presence of a crack (or
alleged crack called Zine) in the higher east part of the town (broad of
Huwara) resulting from an old earthquake according to the elderly parents,
which caused a permanent spring giving life to most of the town's
agricultural and named Ibn al-Aqil.
The History :
There are many caves in the town date back to the
Phoenician era, most of the caves one falls in the district "lantern" in the
north-west of the town and there is three more on the east side of the
village the middle one contains three openings and on the internal side of
each one of the three they contain old Phoenicians graves. In the south part
of the town there is a long glass pottery, colored glass cups and there is a
number of mills on one of the Zahrani river streams.
The Schools :
There is an old mosque in the town said that it was a
religious school in the early 20th century and was sponsored by scholars of
a religion, but the school did not last long, then in the early 1950s it was
re-used as the official school of the town, Before the 1950 period the
education to the sons of the town families of Reading in the 1930s and 1940s
was attended by Mr. Ali Abdel-Meguid, Sheikh Mohiuddin Elhur, Abdul Ghani
Faqih, Sheikh Salman Taki Al Faqih and then Sheikh Mohamed Taqi Al Faqih.
The official beginning of the school year to the
reintroduction in 1944 with a single teacher Moussa Hussein Hammoud, from
the town of Kfar followed in the early 1950s Sheikh Arif Elhour, and then
Antoine Abu Samra 1957 / 1958. In the early 1960s, presented to the school
by teachers Jamil Jizzini, Wafiq Kassem, Muqallad Muqallad, Tawfiq Elhour,
Saleh Al-Khayyat, and completed the primary 1970 mm and is now the director
Professor Hani Muhammad Elhour and then his successor Professor Ibrahim
Fayyad for the year 1987. The current Director is Professor fair Khavaja
with the knowledge that the school is the only elementary, There is also a
branch of the Al-Mahdi private schools as of the year 1997.
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