Younine
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| subdivision_name1 = Baalbek-Hermel
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| subdivision_name2 = Baalbek
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Younine ({{langx|ar|يونين|Yūnīn}}), also spelled Yunin, is a municipality in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in northeastern Lebanon. It is located approximately {{convert|103|km|mi|sp=us}} east of the national capital Beirut, and {{convert|18|km|mi|sp=us}} northeast of the governorate capital of Baalbek.{{cite book |title=Mune: La conservation alimentaire traditionnelle au Liban |date=1994 |publisher=Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme |location=Paris |page=6 |isbn=9782735105397 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uDkqAAAAYAAJ |language=fr}} Its average elevation is {{convert|1215|m|ft|sp=us}} above sea level and its jurisdiction covers 7,759 hectares.{{cite web |title=Younine |url=http://www.localiban.org/younine-4071 |publisher=Localliban |access-date=30 September 2020 |date=7 December 2007}} It had 6,557 registered voters in 2010. Its inhabitants are Shia Muslims.{{cite web |title=Municipal and ikhtiariah elections in the Beqa'a 147 municipalities and 414 mokhtars |url=http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/iiMOnthly-Municip-E91-Feb10.pdf |website=The Monthly Magazine |pages=18, 21 |date=February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111732/http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/iiMOnthly-Municip-E91-Feb10.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}
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.{{cite book |last1=Guo |first1=Li |title=Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography: Al-Yūnīnī's Dhayl Mirʼāt al-zamān, Volume 1 |date=1998 |location=Leiden |isbn=90-04-11028-3 |pages=6-7, 9, 14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BENi4BfMnl8C}} The archer Husayn al-Yunini also hailed from Younine.
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Yunin as a Metawileh village in the Baalbek area.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/145/mode/1up 145]
Notable people
- Ali Kassas (born 2003), footballer
References
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- {{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|authorlink1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|authorlink2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft |title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838| location=Boston|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|volume=3}}
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External links
- [http://www.localiban.org/younine-4071 Younine], localiban
{{Baalbek District}}