title: Douar
text: # Douar
  
  Douar or Ed-Douar (Arabic: الدوار) is small, mainly Maronite, village located in the Metn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. Douar means "round about".
  
  ## Location
  
  The municipality of Douar is located in the Kaza of Matn, in the mohafazat (governorate) of Mount Lebanon. Just above the town of Bikfaya from the east and Mar Moussa from the south, Douar is 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Beyrouth (Beirut), the capital of Lebanon. Its elevation is between 1050 and 1150 meters above sea level. Douar stretches on a hilly area of 132 hectares (1.32 square kilometres; 0.51 square miles).
  
  