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'''Machghara''' ({{lang-ar|مشغرة}}), also spelled '''Mashghara''', is a town in the [[Beqaa Valley]] of [[Lebanon]],<ref name="Le Commerce du Levant">{{cite book|title=Le Commerce du Levant|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l0roAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=23 April 2011|year=1967|publisher=Société de la presse économique.|page=40}}</ref> situated in the [[Western Beqaa District]] and south of the [[Beqaa Governorate]]. It lies just to the northwest of [[Sohmor]] and southwest of [[Lake Qaraoun]], south of [[Aitanit]] and north of [[Ain Et Tine]]. The [[Iskander Spring]] lies to the northeast of the village.
There were 9,944 registered voters in Machghara in 2010. The inhabitants of the town are [[Greek Orthodox Christianity in Lebanon|Greek Orthodox]], [[Melkites|Greek Catholic]] and [[Shia Islam in Lebanon|Shia Muslim]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Municipal and ikhtiariah elections in the Beqa'a 147 municipalities and 414 mokhtars |url=http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/iiMOnthly-Municip-E91-Feb10.pdf |website=The Monthly Magazine |date=February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111732/http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/iiMOnthly-Municip-E91-Feb10.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}</ref>
On 14 June 1986 the [[Syrian army]] entered Machghara to enforce a truce that they had brokered between [[Hezbollah]] and the [[SSNP]]. During a week of fighting Hezbollah had taken control of the town.<ref>Middle East International No 278, 27 June 1986, Publishers [[Christopher Mayhew|Lord Mayhew]], [[Dennis Walters|Dennis Walters MP]]; [[Jim Muir]] pp.7-8</ref>
== History ==
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