Barja
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Coordinates: 33°38′59″N 35°26′36″E / 33.64972°N 35.44333°E
| Barja برجا |
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| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | Mount Lebanon Governorate |
| District | Chouf District |
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  Barja
Location of Barja, Lebanon
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Barja ( برجا ) is a town in the Chouf District of Lebanon. Barja has a population of approximately 22000 people. It lies 32 km south of the capital Beirut, at the midway point between Beirut and Sidon.
'Barja Is one of the Lebanese villages from villages in the Shouf Governorate of Mount Lebanon with a population of 22000 inhabitants located about 34 kilometers south of the capital Beirut. Rises 310 m (1017.11 ft - 339,016 yd) above sea level and covers an area of 729 hectares (7.29 km ² - 2.81394 mi ²). One of the villages of the territory of carob, located west of the Shuf district, away from Beirut, 32 km south and 13 km north of Sidon and the Sea 3100 m, rising from the surface between 173 and 405 meters. Password towers derived either from the Greek "Taparchia" means the capital and the casbah and the district center, or from the Syriac "Burgas" a tower of the many hills overlooking the sea.
Mild Mediterranean climate in summer and winter, and the rate of temperature between 13 and 27 degrees Celsius. An area of 950 hectares, of which 23.7 communal state and 104 hectares of the Islamic Waqf. Hills above the surface of the flat end Boodip narrow, is the natural boundaries with the neighboring villages, are ignited in futuristic springs of water flush, gravel and soil is fertile, rich in limestone rock classes.
Antique houses built near the adjacent spring water rich, on the threshold of three hills, carved stone walls and thick wooden roofs covered with earth drill, or mounted on contracts and arches and semi-circular arches and pillars of solid rock, and spread on those hills are alive to the three towers, separated by alleys and lanes to the old Islamic style, punctuated by a number of old trees, have been those routes and turn after Baknadel lit kerosene imported from Romania and the Caucasus, says thank gardener in his book "Der Alkamar."
It was built in the middle of this century, over those houses, modern houses to meet the growing population and the development of civilization, as homes have been rebuilt after a major earthquake hit the town in 1956, stripped roofs of red tiles replaced the beautiful and Balbaton armed baht.
