Aramoun, Keserwan

This article is about the Lebanese village in Keserwan. For the Lebanese village in Aley, see Aramoun, Aley.

Aramoun (Arabic: عرمون; also spelled Aaramoun or ′Aramun) is a town and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. The town is about 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of Beirut.^[1] It has an average elevation of 730 meters above sea level and a total land area of 148 hectares.^[1] Aramoun's inhabitants are Maronites.^[2]

Aramoun عرمون
Municipality
The Monastery of Saint Nicolas in Aramoun, formerly the house of al-Dahdah
Aramoun Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 34°1′9″N 35°42′1″E
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Keserwan-Jbeil
District	Keserwan
Area
• Total	1.48 km2 (0.57 sq mi)
Elevation	730 m (2,400 ft)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

History

See also: Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202

According to Ottoman tax records, Aramoun had four Muslim households, twelve Christian households and four Christian bachelors.^[3]

In 1838, Eli Smith noted Aramun as a village located in "Aklim el-Kesrawan, Northeast of Beirut; the chief seat of the Maronites".^[4]

In 1959, an Ariana Airlines plane crashed just moments after taking off from the nearby Beirut International airport. The flight, Flight 202 was going to Iran and then to Afghanistan.