Falls in the hands of great Safi Mountain, Jbaa rises
770 m (town center) from the sea level and then begin
to rise to 900 m in the district "Ein-Elsataoun,"
Water flowed between the folds, the more beautiful
greenery trees diverse, especially walnut trees spread
to most of the houses. The capital of Iqlim al-Tuffah,
Jbaa was the Directorate of independent during the
French mandate over Lebanon. Known in the 20th century
as a resort important for the people of
Nabatieh and Sidon and the rest of the Jabal
Amel area, Jbaa is none in its fancy restaurants and
hotels because of its dozens beautiful and famous
natural springs: Ein-elteen, Marjah, Kabiy, Ein-Arkez,
Hoelh-spring, spring-Abboud, Spring-Valley and Albsis.
Also referred to the town of Jbaa by its summer
professional cultural parties (mahra-janat) , which
was held in the summer and where people gathered from
all over the world, Jbaa nights used to be like
ongoing wedding during the lasting peace in the 1960s
and 1970s, then became a home and a haven for the
people of Nabatieh caza beginnings of the first
Israeli war during the 1977 / 1982 period before it
got it own Israeli war in which people of the village
moved to Sidon and Beirut as of the year 1985.
After liberation from Israel in 2001 there was a
renovation to most of the village based on the
improvement in the town of civilization and the
revival of cafes and restaurants to have a prosperous
summer season and revive the old days and times.
Jbaa area real estate is 3000 acres, and it is about
12 KM from Nabatieh, and 68 km from the capital
Beirut. A population of about 10.000 inhabitants 80%
of them abandoned during the Israeli war. The name
Jbaa according Mr. Mohsen Alamin is hebrew a name
meaning high hill.
Jbaa has a Romanian cemetery south west of the
town, as there is in the central effects of an old
Christian monastery, Also it was a fortress built by
the rulers in the town Almenakrh (the Jawad family
currently). Subsequently used as a Srai by the Turkish
government. Then school late nineteenth century
(1889). then on it's ashes a modern primary school
build in the year 1958, and the remainder were used as
the basis as a wall to the modern secondary School.
There was also a mosque build by the second martyr,
and then examined the effects, leaving nothing but a
painting of the old history of restoration. a new
mosque was built on the ashes of the old mosque in the
modern town center.
The scientific, cultural and social development in
the year 1889 the government established the Turkish
primary school for males and another for females in
the remnants of Castle princes (Almenakrh) center of
the town of Jbaa. At the beginning of the assignment,
in the year 1922 was the opening of the school, which
stopped during the First World War. The golden age of
the teaching in the town of Jbaa between the years
1978 and 1982 were the establishment of a branch of
the secondary school of (Hassan Kamel al-Sabah) which
was established in the town because of the security
situation in Nabatieh, the difficult times the town of
Nabatieh was experiencing had caused many
students and the surrounding area to joined their
beloved brothers in Jbaa, and the number of students
reached 870 students. then it became a secondary
school in the year 1981 / 1982.
