Keserwan District

Keserwan District (Arabic: قضاء كسروان, transliteration: Qaḍā' Kisrawān) is a district (qadaa) in Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon, to the northeast of Lebanon's capital Beirut. The capital, Jounieh, is overwhelmingly Maronite Christian. The area is home to the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve.

According to the medieval historian Gabriel ibn al-Qilai, the name “Kesrwan” derives from the Maronite muqadam Kisra of Baskinta. During the time of the Crusades, Keserwan was the northern frontier of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

As of 2022, the religious make-up of the District's 96,419 voters were roughly 82% Maronite Catholics, 5% Greek Catholic, 4% Greek Orthodox, 3% other Christian Minorities, 2% Shia, and 4% others. According to voter registration data, the population is overwhelmingly Christian, the highest percentage-wise in the nation.

The district is part of the Keserwan-Byblos electoral district, with the district of Keserwan being allocated 5 Maronite seats (and the overall constituency having 7 Maronites and 1 Shi'ia).

• Aazra
• Adma
• Ain El Delbeh
• Ain el-Rihaneh
• Aintoura
• Ajaltoun
• Aramoun
• Ashqout
• Attine
• Ballouneh
• Batha
• Bekaata Ashqout
• Bekaata Kenaan
• Bezhel
• Bkerké
• Bouar
• Bqaatouta (Bkaatouta)
• Bzoummar
• Chahtoul
• Chnaniir
• Daraoun
• Daraya
• Dlebta
• Faitroun
• Faraya
• Fatqa
• Ghadir
• Ghbaleh
• Ghidras
• Ghineh
• Ghosta
• Harissa
• Hrajel
• Jdaidet Ghazir
• Jeita
• Jounieh
• Jouret Bedran
• Jouret Mhad
• Jouret el-Termos
• Jwar El Hous
• Kaslik
• Kfardebian
• Kfaryassine
• Kfour
• Kleiat
• Maarab
• Mayrouba
• Nammoura
• Okaibe
• Rayfoun
• Safra
• Sahel Alma
• Sarba
• Sehaileh
• Tabarja
• Wata El Jawz
• Yahchouch
• Zouk Mikael
• Zouk Mosbeh

• Assaf dynasty Sultan Selim I assigned the Assafs as his chief agents in the region between Beirut and Tripoli, confirming their control of Keserwan, and awarding them tax farms in the nawahi of Byblos and Beirut. While Emir Assaf had lived in Aintoura in the winter and elsewhere along the Nahr al-Kalb ridge prior to the Ottoman conquest, in 1517, he moved his headquarters to Ghazir.
• Khazen family
• Sfeir

• Assaf dynasty
• Kisrawan
• Mount Lebanon revolts of 752 and 759

• Antoine Khoury Harb, The Maronites: History and Constants (ASIN B000B0F6NU)
• Matti Moosa, The Maronites in History (ISBN 1-59333-182-7)
• Richard Van Leeuwen, Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khāzin Sheikhs and the Maronite Church (1736-1840) (ISBN 90-04-09978-6)
• Farid el-Khazen, The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976 (ISBN 0-674-08105-6)
• Catholic-Hierarchy
• The sword of the Maronite Prince
• Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title
• National Geographic Magazine DNA sample from Khazen member
• An Interview with Cheikh Malek el-Khazen