The town of Rachaya al Foukhar from Beirut distance of 150 kilometers in the far southeast of Lebanon when Sfuj Mount Hermon or Mount Hermon one of the highest heights of Mount Lebanon East derived from the name of Lebanon or that means the White proportion to Snow White to such peaks towering more days of the year . And tracking Rashaya administrative capital city of Hasbaya and Tim valley, consequently, in the district of Hasbaya of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.
Origin of the name town of Rashaya pottery from the Syriac language - Aramaic the language the oldest in the country east and started from the slopes of Hermon, where she lives tribes Aramaic - Syriac, the language spoken by Jesus Christ on the cross, and still this Aramaic alive even today in the village of Maaloula Syrian Hermon foothills east Syria hand.
I miss the current label Rashaya wrote great writer Anis Freiha from RISHAYE word Aramaic - Syriac, which means masters or gentlemen, leaders and sponsors of proportion to the people who inhabited since ancient times in those parts beautiful and high and rugged tract, and then evolved word with the Arabs of Rachana Maximization which emphasizes the Syriac language the word Rashaya chosen by Arabs for easy to pronounce, and thus became Rachana = Rashaya, similar to the town of Rachana in the western Bekaa Valley, which meant the lords and Tim Valley and then later turned to the word Rashaya valley.
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