Rayfoun (Arabic: ريفون; also spelled Reifun or Raifoun) is a village and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. The village is about 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of Beirut.[1] It has an average elevation of 1,050 meters above sea level and a total land area of 189 hectares.[1]
Rayfoun's inhabitants are predominantly Maronites.[2] Rayfoun is the hometown of Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir and the Ottoman-era peasant leader Tanyus Shahin.
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Rayfoun (Arabic: ريفون; also spelled Reifun or Raifoun) is a village and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate...
Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant". Nasrallah Sfeir was born in Rayfoun, Lebanon, on 15 May 1920. He was educated in Beirut, and at Mar Abda School...
village, Rayfoun. There are sparse biographical details available about Shahin. He was born to a poor Maronite Christian family in the village of Rayfoun in...
of Rayfoun, Ajaltoun, Ashqout, Qleiat and Mazraat Kfardebian, and the headquarters was originally in Zouk Mikael before being relocated to Rayfoun. Opposition...
Ghosn's first marriage was to Rita Kordahi, who came originally from Rayfoun, Lebanon, and whom he met in France in 1984. Together they had four children:...
and summoned a brief trial in the church of Saint Serge and Bacchus in Rayfoun. Here, in May 1710, Jacob Awad was declared guilty and deposed. In his...
cleric, Patriarch of the Maronite Church and Roman Catholic Cardinal; in Rayfoun (d. 2011) Died: Maria Bochkareva, 30, woman soldier for the White Army...
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