Jdeideh, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon

Archaeology

๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Jdeideh (ุฌุฏูŠุฏุฉ ุงู„ู…ุชู† al-Judaydat), also Jdayde, Jdaideh and Jdeidet el-Matn, is a coastal municipality and the administrative capital of the Matn District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate.

Jdeideh has an area of approximately 6ย kmยฒ. It is located in the northern suburbs of Beirut city that comprise Greater Beirut. The municipality is formed of three villages of Jdeidet el-Matn, Bauchrieh and Sed el Bauchrieh with a mixed ethnic Armenian & Assyrian population. Jdeidet el-Matn has five municipal council members, while Bauchrieh has nine, and Sed el Bauchrieh has seven,

Jdeideh is an important industrial zone and a significant location for commercial and banking activity.

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Archaeology Three archaeological sites were found in the Jdeideh area by Jesuit fathers. Two of these featured finds of Heavy Neolithic flints of the Qaraoun culture.

Jdeideh I is 750 metres (2,460ย ft) north-east of the town on the left bank of the Nahr Mout, in fields on a 15 metres (49ย ft) contour. It was discovered by Raoul Describes who retrieved knapped tools from several periods including Acheulean, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic and Heavy Neolithic. This material is in the Saint Joseph University, Museum of Lebanese Prehistory.

Jdeideh II is 500 metres (1,600ย ft) north-east of Tuillerie Medawer (east of Haret ech Cheikh) on low foothills to the left of a descending stream running next to the Aamariyeh road. An Upper Paleolithic assemblage in brown Cretaceous flint was found by Auguste Bergy including a variety of scrapers including a specialist variety also found at Ain Cheikh that were termed Grattoirs de cรดtรฉ.

Jdeideh III is on a wooded hilltop north north-west of Aamariyeh on the south-west slopes that was also found by Bergy. He recovered a Qaraoun culture type, Gigantolithic assemblage of massive choppers, scrapers on flakes and coarse picks.

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Jdeideh has a population of over 160,000 people. Jdeideh also forms the centre of the wider Matn District which has a population of over 750,000 people. It is also a part of the larger Mount Lebanon Governorate.

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Antipodal to Jdeideh is: -144.433,-33.883

Locations Near: Jdeideh 35.5667,33.8833

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Antipodal to: Jdeideh -144.433,-33.883

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