Hadeth

Hadeth is located at the south east of the town of Beirut have Lebanon, its rise with the top in the sea level between plain and hill is, of approximately 300 meters. Hadeth is limited, in north by Hazmieh and Baabda, the east by Baabda, the South by Kfarchima and Betchai, the West by Borj El Barajneh, Haret Hreik and Chiah. Its surface extends on 553 hectares. Hadeth is crossed in its lower part by the old road of Saida which connects it to Beirut through Chiah and thus locates it at a distance of 8 km of the capital, and side opposed towards Saida, by Kfarchima and Choueifat. A broad boulevard connects the place of the village to Hazmieh and Furn el Cheback, not of meeting of the international roads.

Old story

The area of Hadeth, in extreme cases vast contained from its past the area of Botchai, Sebnai and Haret El Botom. The traces of its last glory go up until the time of Phéniciens.Le name of (Sebnai) from its origin Syriaque “Beshbeniya”, was changed grammatically to replace Beshbe by Seb “Sebniah”. When to the basic translation of the name that wants to say: " between construction ". The linguistic experts Sémites contradict themselves on the interpretation of the direction, that is to say the origin of the pronunciation: it is perhaps an interpolation: SABNAYE “will build” is transitive root (built) with HS' ebnay a connected name of or the translation “That which built”. When to BOTCHAY she wants to say the hiding-place, or, hidden eyes. Hadeth of its direction is a name Syriaque, its origin is HATTA of the direction (new), the connection of D with T and become grammatically HADATA then HADAT then joined the grammatical EL El Hadeth there. Although this area had not known residential stability at the beginning of the eighteenth century, it is clear that it was the center of the agricultural activity since the era of the emir Fakhr Eddine, which succeeds in promoting agriculture according to the principles and the techniques of this time on the Lebanese littoral. Vestiges of this glory, as the historians quote on Fakhr Eddine, are always in the neighbouring area of Hadeth: To quote only some of them, famous grinding stones of Mreijeh - Burj el-Barajineh.

External sites

Municipality of Hadeth

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