Younine

Younine (Arabic: يونين, romanized: Yūnīn), also spelled Yunin, is a municipality in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in northeastern Lebanon.^[1] It is located approximately 103 kilometers (64 mi) east of the national capital Beirut,^[1] and 18 kilometers (11 mi) northeast of the governorate capital of Baalbek.^[2] Its average elevation is 1,215 meters (3,986 ft) above sea level and its jurisdiction covers 7,759 hectares.^[1] It had 6,557 registered voters in 2010. Its inhabitants are Shia Muslims.^[3]

Younine يونين
Younine Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 34°4′47″N 36°16′32″E
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Baalbek-Hermel
District	Baalbek
Area
• Total	7,759 ha (19,173 acres)
Elevation	1,215 m (3,986 ft)

History

Younine was the ancestral village of the 13th-century Mamluk hadith scholars Abd Allah al-Yunini (d. 1220) and Qutb al-Din Musa ibn Muhammad al-Yunini al-Hanbali of Damascus. Qutb al-Din also owned a residence in the village. At the time Younine also contained a Sufi lodge.^[4] The archer Husayn al-Yunini also hailed from Younine.

In 1838, Eli Smith noted Yunin as a Metawileh village in the Baalbek area.^[5]

Notable people

• Ali Kassas (born 2003), footballer