The Town of Zgharta

Population   السكان   The Town  المدينة 

  A brief demographic survey from 1849 to 2000

 دراسة مختصرة  للتطور السكاني في مدينة زغرتا

  In 1849, Zgharta counted 2166 persons living in 250 houses with an average of 8.66 person per family.....



  Ten major families represent 75% of the population in Zgharta: repartition of the listed citizens among "families" and administrative sectors.

تقسيم سكان زغرتا عائليا وانتخابيا



  A brief history: The majority of the Maronite people inhabited towns and villages in Mount Lebanon, dominating Tripoli and Beirut and facing the West.... These contiguous or neighboring regions formed a strategic triangle, which guaranteed the security of the Maronites and constituted the principal center of their religious and national lives.

The Public Administration: The town of Zgharta is the administrative center of the Caza (District) of Zgharta Zawieh. It is the siege of the Ka'emakam (governor) who represents the central government authority and who is nominated by the Cabinet and is relevant to the ministery of Interior Affairs....

 The schools in Zgharta: A brief survey on the history of education in the town of Zgharta.

The Municipality:  the municipal councils from 1916 till 1976
 

EMIGRATION

 

هناك العديد من جيل الهجرة الثانية لم يعد لهم اي اتصال بوطنهم الام ولكن السجلات في دوائر  النفوس لا زالت تحوي اسماؤهم. نورد هنا الكثير من الاسماء مع رقم السجل والحي.

 

Some of those who emigrated in the first half of the 20th century didn't return home.              

The names of these early emigrants are available in lists with the official record number and according to the sector they were initially living in. The family names are classified in alphabetical order.

The names in the lists are those of emigrants that went away in the early 1900's and didn't report back.

 

A Brief Political History of Zgharta - Ehden. Five major families marked the political life of the Caza. A brief review on the legislative elections in the Caza of Zgharta-Zawieh from 1934 to the year 2000.
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Agricultural Survey: A community interested in owning land was surely an agricultural community. ... The early people of Zgharta planted vegetables in the irrigated lands near the rivers and wheat in the eastern part where water was less available....
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HISTORY

 

a brief history of Zgharta:
The majority of the Maronite people inhabited towns and villages in Mount Lebanon, dominating Tripoli and Beirut and facing the West....

a brief history of
Ehden: You can't go back to the ancient history of Ehden because of lack of written documents......