FAMILIES
DISTRICTS
Shihab
Bcharri, Batroun, Gebail (Byblos), Jabal Raihan, parfois la Bekaa et Deir al-Qamar, residence of the Emir. In effect the three first were ceded to Maronites and Greek Orthodox families.
Abul- Lama
Matn, Qati, Zahlé
Arslan
Lower Gharb
Muzhir
Hammana (Matn)
Jumblatt
Chouf, Jezzin, Tuffah and Jabal Raihan
Imad (Yazbaki)
Urqoub
Abou Nakad
Manasif and Chahhar
Talhuq
Upper Gharb (previously the Arslan’s muqata’a)
Abd al-Malik
Jurd
Khazen
Kersouan, sometimes Gibbit Bcharri
Hobeich
Ghazir (Kersouan)
Dahdah
Ftouh (Kersouan)
Dahir
Zawya
Azar
Koura
Hamadeh
al-Munaitirah (previously Gebail, Batrun, Gibbit Bcharri)