Kaitouly (also, Kaitouli, Qaytouli. Arabic:" قيتولي" مصيف الآلهة) is a village in the Jezzine District of South Governorate in Lebanon. Kaitouly is about 72 km from the capital Beirut.
Kaitouly | |
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![]() The Lebanese village of Kaitouly as it looks from the Haitoura – Jezzine road. | |
Coordinates: 33°32′15″N 35°33′07″E / 33.53750°N 35.55194°E | |
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Governorate | South Governorate |
District | Jezzine District |
Elevation | 950 m (3,120 ft) |
Distance from the Capital Beirut | 72 km |
Kaitouly come from a Syriac word which means "Gods residence". [2]
Monuments in Kaitouly include Mar Mikhael ( Saint Michael) ancient church (built around 1811), heritage houses, an old press, ruins of an old press, and that of old mills. [3]
A visitor to the area can find human traces in the nature such as coal quarries and mines, and purely natural spots including the Mar Gergess ( Saint George) spring, the Al-Houwwa (Arabic for pit) in the area of Dahr Al-Makla'a, and the pine woods dispersed around the village. [4]
Of the developmental projects that are helping Kaitouly:
From a geological point of view, the land of Kaitouly is principally made of sediments that originate from the event of the formation of the Mount Lebanon where parts of the crust was raised from below the Mediterranean Sea to elevations reaching 3,088 m at the Qurnat as Sawda'.