Achrafieh (lbn)

Achrafieh

Achrafieh ranks 4,538th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Soisy-sous-Montmorency, Peabody, Massachusetts, and Wageningen. Memorable people born in Achrafieh include Bachir Gemayel, Nancy Ajram, and Elias Khoury. Memorable people who died in Achrafieh include Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, and Bachir Gemayel. Achrafieh has been the birth place of many politicians, and singers and the death place of many religious figures, and politicians. Achrafieh is located in Lebanon.

Achrafieh is an upper-class area in eastern Beirut, Lebanon. In strictly administrative terms, the name refers to a sector (secteur) centred on Sassine Square, the highest point in the city, as well as a broader quarter (quartier). In popular parlance, however, Achrafieh refers to the whole hill that rises above Gemmayze in the north and extends to Badaro in the south, and includes the Rmeil quarter. Read more on Wikipedia