Miziara (known also as Meziara, Arabic: مزيارة) is a town located in the Zgharta District in the North Governorate of Lebanon.

The town's water source is in Ain El Moutran, coming through Bhairet Toula, a nearby village.

This migration from the Metn and Kesrwan accelerated particularly after the Sheikhs Hamadeh, rulers of Jebbet Bsharri started stabilising their rule around 1680.

When Naamtallah Néhmé left Bikfaya, Metn, to North Lebanon, he first settled in Arbet Kozhaya.

in Syriac, Rishtaamout means the summit of taste or of pleasure as the farm was famous for its tasty fruits.

There Naamtallah's children founded four families: The Historian Boutros Béchara Karam wrote in his book The Coral Chain in the history of North Lebanon that the family of Naamtallah Néhmé stayed in Rishtaamout for about seventy years.

But summers were spent in Ejbeh, where they bought a hill and built a church on it, which is still known as Saint George Mountain.

Naamtallah Néhmé family requested from the rulers of Jebbet Bsharri, the Shiite Hamadeh, the permission to live in Houmeis, a ruined village and its nearby forest which is now known as Miziara.

The other three brothers Youssef, Abdallah and Abdel Ahad settled in the forest with their families, as its location and atmosphere gave them great pleasure.

[8] After Prince Youssef Al Shihabi, then ruler of the Byblos region, took over the rule of Jebbet Bsharri, a land survey was made in 1766.

At that time, all the Meziarians, except for Yousef Elias, were sharecroppers with the Sheikhs Karam and Issa El Khoury.

In the beginning of the 20th century, the difficult conditions of sharecroppers made Yousef Elias Khoury instigate the people to revolt.

He used to wear an old shoe, light his cigarette and walk on foot to Batroun, the administrative center of the Bsharri region during the Mutassarrifiat Regime (1862–1918).

Yousef Elias Khoury, Hanna's father, stayed in Miziara with his sons, occupied with the management of his money and estates.

Then came a time when the Aghas were unable to pay their debts in cash, so they paid it with land and estates.

Miziara features qusur, Arabic for 'palaces,' which were constructed using wealth brought from emigrants in Africa.

[11] Our Lady of Miziara, Mother of Mercies, is a Marian shrine which consists of a statue of the Virgin Mary that stands at the entrance of the village.

The shrine also includes sculptural representation of Christ's Baptism, Wedding at Cana, and the Last Supper.