Braissat
City in North Governorate
Braissat (Arabic: بريسات, romanized: Brayssāt) is a village located in Bsharri District in the North Governorate of Lebanon. It borders Dimane and Hadath El Jebbeh.
The city of Braissat has many tourist attractions, one of them being Les Jardins des Patriarches Maronites.
Demographics
In 2014 Christians made up 99.43% of registered voters in Braissat. 96.57% of the voters were Maronite Catholics.
“Braissat” enters the record as city in North Governorate. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Braissat, City and North can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Braissat” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Braissat, City and North provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105584681. Authority coordinates are 34.241, 35.941. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Braissat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.