Deir-el-kamar ('convent of the moon'), a town of Syria, formerly the capital of the Druses, 13 miles SSE. of Beyrout. It is situated on the edge of a deep and picturesque glen of Mount Lebanon, on the opposite side of which stands the palace Bteddin, the summer residence of the Christian governor of Lebanon. Pop. 8000, mostly Maronites.
Deir-el-kamar
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 735
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