Ain Qenia

Ain Qenia (Arabic: عين قنيا) is a municipality in the Hasbaya District in Lebanon.

In 1838, during the Ottoman era, Eli Smith noted the population of the place (which he called 'Ain Tinta), as being Druze.

[1] In 1875 Victor Guérin noted about A'in Kenia: "On October 12, at six o'clock in the morning, I cross the Wadi Hasbeya, which crosses from east to west the village of this name, and I climb to the east-northeast, then to the east, well-cultivated slopes, where the vine prospers wonderfully at a height that exceeds 8oo meters above the Mediterranean.

At six hours and thirty minutes, I reach A'in Kenia, a village inhabited by Druses and schismatic Greeks.

An excellent spring flows in this place, and it is it which, by means of a conduit, feeds water to the castle of Hasbeya.