Bmaryam
Place in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon
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Bmariam, also spelled Bmaryam, is a village in Baabda District, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.[1]
Bmariam
بمريم | |
|---|---|
  Bmariam | |
| Coordinates: 33°49′43″N 35°43′25″E | |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | Mount Lebanon |
| District | Baabda District |
History
During the Mountain War many of the Christians in the village fled due to fighting. On 1 September 1983, Druze militias entered the Syrian-controlled village and killed 39 of Christian civilians.[2][3] The right-wing Phalangist-operated Voice of Lebanon radio station reported that the militias had "butchered about 40 elderly persons and children with knives, including the town’s priest, Gergis El-Rai," and that only one remaining Christian had survived.[4]
