Yaroun
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Yaroun يارون |
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| City | |
 Yaroun
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| Coordinates: 33°05′N 35°25′E / 33.083°N 35.417°ECoordinates: 33°05′N 35°25′E / 33.083°N 35.417°E | |
| Grid position | 189/276 PAL |
| Country |
 Lebanon
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| Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
| District | Bint Jbeil District |
| Highest elevation | 800 m (2,600 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 750 m (2,460 ft) |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Dialing code | +961 |
Yaroun (also spelled Yarun and in Arabic يارون) is a Lebanese village located in the Caza of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatiye Governorate in Lebanon.
Yaroun occupies a hill with elevation ranging from 750 to 900 meters above sea level. The main agricultural products of Yaroun are olives, wheat, and tobacco.
Yaroun lies on the border with Israel. It overlooks Saliha and Kafr Bir'im in the Israeli part of the border.
In 1596, it was named as a village, Yarun an-Nasara, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 37 Muslim households and 20 Muslim bachelors, and 39 Christian households and 11 Christian bachelors. The villagers paid taxes on a number of crops, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 7,247 akçe.
In 1674, western travellers saw remains of a monastery and church near by, with fragments from many columns,
In 1781 Nasif al-Nassar was killed here by Jazzar Pasha when their two armies met.
In 1838, Edward Robinson noted it as "a large village".Ernest Renan visited Yaroun during his mission to Lebanon and described what he found in his book Mission de Phénicie (1865-1874). He found many antiquities at Yaroun.
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