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'''Dahr Al-Ahmar''' is a village in [[Lebanon]], situated in the [[Rashaya District]] and south of the [[Beqaa Governorate]]. It is located near the [[Syrian]] border, approximately 6&nbsp;km from [[Rashaya]] and south of [[Kfar Danis]].<ref name="Mannheim2001">{{cite book|author=Ivan Mannheim|title=Syria & Lebanon handbook: the travel guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9LHVdWLc7gC&pg=PA603|access-date=23 April 2011|date=1 July 2001|publisher=Footprint Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-900949-90-3|pages=603–}}</ref> The population of the village is predominantly [[Druze in Lebanon|Druze]].<ref>[http://www.britishdruze.org.uk/popups/detailed_druzes.html British Druze Society - Druze communities in the Middle East] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911063025/http://www.britishdruze.org.uk/popups/detailed_druzes.html |date=2011-09-11 }}</ref> There is a shrine in the village to an important woman in Druze history, [[Sitt Sarah]], the niece of one of the authors of the [[Epistles of Wisdom]], Baha'u d-Dīn as-Samuqī ("al-Muqtana Baha’ud-Dīn").<ref name="Khuri2004">{{cite book|author=Fuad I. Khuri|title=Being a Druze|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l4LXAAAAMAAJ|access-date=23 April 2011|year=2004|publisher=Druze Heritage Foundation|isbn=978-1-904850-01-4}}</ref> She is remembered for being a great peacemaker.<ref name="Azzam2007">{{cite book|author=Intisar J. Azzam|title=Gender and religion: Druze women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVEMAQAAMAAJ|access-date=23 April 2011|year=2007|publisher=Druze Heritage Foundation|isbn=978-1-904850-12-0}}</ref>
Daher al ahmar biggest families are Bahmad and Jaber
==Archaeological site==
Some flints were found 500 metres north of the village in the hills including large [[axe]]s, scrapers and [[sickle]] blades with fine denticulation. This was suggested by [[Jacques Cauvin]] and [[Marie-Claire Cauvin]] to have been a site contemporary with the earliest [[neolithic]] levels at [[Byblos]].<ref name="Moore">{{cite book|last=Moore|first=A.M.T.|title=The Neolithic of the Levant|publisher=Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis|year=1978|pages=436–442|url=http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/182.html}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Deir el Ahmar]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.localiban.org/spip.php?article4571 Localiban entry on Dahr El Ahmar]
* [http://www.maplandia.com/lebanon/lebanon/dahr-el-ahmar/ Map source for Dahr El Ahmar]
{{Archaeological sites in Lebanon}}
{{Rashaya District}}
[[Category:Populated places in Rashaya District]]
[[Category:Druze communities in Lebanon]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites in Lebanon]]