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{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Kefraya
| native_name             = كفريا
| native_name_lang        = ara<!-- ISO 639-2 code: "fr" for French, "ara" for Arabic -->
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| subdivision_name1       = Beqaa Governorate
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| subdivision_name2       = Western Beqaa District
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| founder                 = Hala Saleh
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'''Kefraya''' ({{lang-ar|كفريا}} / ALA-LC: ''Kifrayā'') is a village in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in the Republic of [[Place:Lebanon|Lebanon]], approximately {{convert|7|km|mi}} northwest of [[Place:Joub Jannine|Joub Jannine]].<ref name="Lebanon)1966">{{cite book|author=Université Saint-Joseph (Beirut, Lebanon)|title=Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_SQOAAAAYAAJ|access-date=26 August 2011|year=1966|publisher=Impr. catholique}}</ref> The village is home to a mixed population of Sunnis and Greek Catholics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/iiMOnthly-Municip-E91-Feb10.pdf |website=localiban |title=The Monthly - issue 91 |access-date=25 December 2015 |page=7 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111732/http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/iiMOnthly-Municip-E91-Feb10.pdf |archive-date= 4 March 2016 }}</ref>

==Château Kefraya==
It is known for its vineyards and Château Kefraya wines. Château Kefraya is the second biggest winery in the Beqaa Valley with land that extends up to {{convert|3000|acre|km2}} amongst the foothills of Mount Barouk, {{convert|20|km|mi}} south of the town of Chtaura. It was established in 1951 by its owner Michel de Bustros (Bustros Family). Shares of the winery are owned by Walid Jumblatt.<ref name="Joseph2006">{{cite book|author=Robert Joseph|title=Wine Travel Guide to the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8G5aWddvUh4C&pg=PA346|access-date=26 August 2011|date=1 December 2006|publisher=Footprint Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-904777-85-4|pages=346–}}</ref> 
Chateau Kefraya exports wines to a number of countries in America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Africa.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chateau Kefraya - Distributors Across the World|url=http://www.chateaukefraya.com/#/en/worldpresence/distributorsaroundtheworld/}}</ref>

==Archaeology==
Kefraya was also once home to the Qaraoun culture with a Heavy Neolithic archaeological industry prior to the [[History:Neolithic Revolution|Neolithic Revolution]].<ref name="WendorfMarks1975">{{cite book|author1=Fred Wendorf|author2=Anthony E. Marks|title=Problems in prehistory: North Africa and the Levant|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2krJIQ1fwcEC|access-date=26 August 2011|year=1975|publisher=SMU Press|isbn=978-0-87074-146-3}}</ref><ref name="Vaufrey1968">{{cite book|author=Raymond Vaufrey|title=La Préhistoire: problèmes et tendances|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KaBAAAAMAAJ|access-date=26 August 2011|year=1968|publisher=Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique}}</ref> A very large archaeological site was discovered in the area running along both sides of the road. Good quality flint nodules were found amongst [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] conglomerates where a Heavy Neolithic factory site was detected with a massive abundance of [[Biology:Levallois technique|Levallois]] cores, [[Engineering:Debitage|debitage]] and waste littering the surface of the site. Large numbers of [[Earth:Flint|flint]] tools were collected by workers that included a variety of scrapers on flakes, knives, [[Engineering:Axe|axe]]s, [[Engineering:Adze|adze]]s and a segmented [[Sickle|sickle]] blade.<ref name="Moore3">{{cite book|last=Moore|first=A.M.T.|title=The Neolithic of the Levant|publisher=Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis|year=1978|pages=446–447|url=http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/186.html}}</ref> The type of flint found in the area was termed Kefraya flint.<ref name="GarrodCopeland1983">{{cite book|author1=Dorothy Anne Elizabeth Garrod|author2=L. Copeland|title=Adlun in the Stone Age: the excavations of D.A.E. Garrod in the Lebanon, 1958-1963|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OVITAQAAMAAJ|access-date=26 August 2011|year=1983|publisher=B.A.R.|isbn=978-0-86054-203-2}}</ref><ref name="Hours1994">{{cite book|author=Francis Hours|title=Atlas des sites du proche orient (14000-5700 BP)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlZtAAAAMAAJ|access-date=26 August 2011|year=1994|publisher=Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen|isbn=978-2-903264-53-6}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.chateaukefraya.com]
*[http://www.localiban.org/article4558.html  Kefraiya (Beqaa Ouest)]
* [http://wikimapia.org/1494081/Chateau-Kefraya-Wine Wikimapia - Chateau Kefraya]
* [http://www.chateaukefraya.com/ Chateau Kefraya Website]
* [http://www.kifraya.com/ kifraya.com Kefraya Wine Making]
* [http://www.marcopolis.net/the-story-of-chateau-kefraya.htm marcopolis.com The Story of Chateau Kefraya]
* [http://www.discoverlebanon.com/en/panoramic_views/wines-of-lebanon.php discoverlebanon.com Chateau Kefraya]
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