Karmsaddeh  Karmsaddeh (also Karm Saddeh, ) is a village located in the Zgharta District in the North Governorate of Lebanon. Its population is predominantly Maronite Catholic. Within the village center is Saint John's Church. Saint John is the patron Saint of Karmsaddeh. Karmsaddeh is composed of two parts: "Karm" and "Saddeh". Karmsaddeh have been home for a very ancient settlement as one can still find ruins going most probably to the Greek and Roman (and maybe Phoenician) periods in the vicinity of the village, especially in the area of the extinct village of Qarheen (). According to some Historians, Qarheen was destroyed by the Mamluks at the end of the 13th Century and its inhabitants took refuge in Karmsaddeh. It is arguably known that Karmsaddeh has been inhabited for up to 2,000 years. The oldest reference to Qarheen is found on"a cooking-pot and its lid left to the Monastery of Qozhaya by Father George (Jerjes), a priest serving the village of Qarhin, in the year 1000 of the Christian era." At the beginning of the Ottoman era in Lebanon, Karmsaddeh was a relatively important village. In the first Ottoman Census of 1519, Karmsaddeh belonged to the Jebbet Bsharri region. All the inhabitants were Christians. The records show that there were 32 male adults (more than 15 years old), and 29 of them were married. If we adopt the common estimation of the Historians of that period, Karmsaddeh should have counted 211 inhabitants, which represented a relatively important settlement. In the Census of 1571, Karmsaddeh counted 47 male adults, all Christians and married. It represents an annual demographic increase of 7.5 per mil per year, figure to be compared to the average of the region of 4.2 per mil per year. It is an important demographic vitality during the very difficult 16th century. In 1885, the Maronite seminar of Mar Yaaqoub was founded in Karmsaddeh by the archbishop of Tripoli. It is still today one of the important seminars of the Maronite Church. At the end of the 19th Century, emigration to the new world started among the natives of Karmsaddeh. It continued all along the 20th Century and many people left to Africa (South Africa and Senegal), to France, Canada, the United States and Australia.