Blat, Byblos District

Blat

بلاط
Blat بلاط
	Built on an ancient Roman temple, the historic church of Mar Elias in Blat is a surviving waqf of the House of al-Dahdah
	Blat Location in Lebanon
	Coordinates: 34°6′48″N 35°39′47″E / 34.11333°N 35.66306°E
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Keserwan-Jbeil
District	Byblos
Area
• Total	6.83 km2 (2.64 sq mi)
Elevation	190 m (620 ft)

Blat (Arabic: بلاط) is a municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is a suburb of Byblos and is 40 kilometers north of Beirut. Blat has an average elevation of 190 meters above sea level and a total land area of 683 hectares.^[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholics.^[2] As of 2008, there were three private schools in the village enrolling 2,560 students, in addition to a campus of the Lebanese American University. There were 28 companies with more than five employees operating in Blat.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Blat (Jbayl)". Localiban. Localiban. 2008-01-16. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
^ "Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban" (PDF). Localiban. Localiban. 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.

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[localiban-1] "Blat (Jbayl)". Localiban. Localiban. 2008-01-16. Retrieved 2016-02-12.

[2] "Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban" (PDF). Localiban. Localiban. 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.

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