Chebaa (Hasbaiya)

Chebaa (Arabic: شبعا‎; also transliterated Shebaa) is a town on the south-eastern tip of Lebanon. It has a largely Sunni Muslim population of 25,000 people. It is situated at an altitude of approximately 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level; spread across two steep rocky mountainsides.[3] It lies adjacent to the contested Shebaa farms—which sit between the town and the Golan Heights.[4] Before 1967, residents of Shebaa farmed in the disputed Shebaa farms territory.[5]

Not to be confused with Shebaa farms or Shabaa.
Chebaa

شبعا
Village
Chebaa, in the 1880s[2]
Chebaa
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°20′55″N 35°44′55″E
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictHasbaya District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+961

The town houses several thousand Syrian refugees.[6]

Educational Establishments
Educational establishmentsChebaa (Hasbaiya) (2005-2006)Lebanon (2005-2006)
Number of Schools42788
Public School21763
Private School21025
Students schooled in the public schools435439905
Students schooled in the private schools145471409

References
  1. Wilson, 1881, vol 2, p. 129
  2. Wilson, 1881, vol 2, p. 129
  3. Nour Samaha (2 Jul 2013). "The strange case of Lebanon's Shebaa". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  4. Krista Eileen Wiegand (2011). Enduring Territorial Disputes: Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy, and Settlement (illustrated ed.). University of Georgia Press. p. 146. ISBN 9780820337388.
  5. Krista Eileen Wiegand (2011). Enduring Territorial Disputes: Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy, and Settlement (illustrated ed.). University of Georgia Press. pp. 157–8. ISBN 9780820337388.
  6. Samya Kullab; Ghinwa Obeid (27 Feb 2015). "Shebaa, the town caught in the middle". The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 June 2015.

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