• Other names include Habbalin, Habbālīn, Hbālīn, Hbêlîne, Hebline, Hbaline, Habalin, Hbaleen, Habālīn, Hbeline, Hbalîne, Hbaïline. • The Nader family's presence in Habline dates from 1516 when their ancestor
Hajj Khalil established himself. • In 1516, following the Marj Dabek battle when the
Ottomans defeated the
Mamluks and invaded
Lebanon and
Syria, Hajj Khalil with his two brothers Hajj Younane and Hbeich fled from
Deir el Ahmar to seek refuge in
Yanouh (The Hajj title was given to
Christians who had completed a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem). • From
Yanouh, Hbeich went to Ghazir in the
Keserwan District where he served the emirs and got rewarded with the
Sheikh title, while Younane went to a village called
Edde near
Byblos and named himself after the village in order to hide his original identity fearing conflict with the
Shia tribes present in the
Byblos area. Hajj Khalil moved to the outskirts of Hbaline where he established a farm, his descendants then moved to Hbaline. • Two families in the village of Arbaniyeh (Baabda District) trace their Ancestry to Hbaline. The Aoun and Asmar families left Hbalin sometimes in the early 17th century. The Asmar, Hbeich and Edde families are said to have been one family which originally inhabited the village of
Deir el Ahmar. ==Demography==