| Chouaya (Hasbaiya) | |
| Native Name: | شويّا (حاصبيّا) |
| Native Name Lang: | ara |
| Settlement Type: | village |
| Pushpin Map: | Lebanon |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Map showing the location within Lebanon |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Lebanon |
| Coordinates: | 33.3928°N 35.7164°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Nabatieh Governorate |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Hasbaya District |
| Elevation M: | 1070 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | EET |
| Utc Offset1: | +2 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +3 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code Type: | Dialing code |
Chouaya (Arabic: شويّا (حاصبيّا)) is a local authority in the Hasbaya District in Lebanon.
In 1838, during the Ottoman era, Eli Smith noted the population of Shuweiya as being Druze and "Greek" Christians.[1]
In 1875 Victor Guérin described it: "Continuing up, I arrive, at six hours forty minutes, at Choueia, another village whose population is similarly composed of Druses and schismatic Greeks. To the east of this village and the plantations of fig trees, vineyards and mulberry trees that surround it, I notice old quarries, which were later transformed into reservoirs, and a little further the remains of a tower antique measuring 12 steps long by 8 wide and built with very considerable blocks, regularly cut. At a short distance from there, several funerary pits dug in the rock are perhaps contemporaneous with this tower, which was intended to protect the road leading on this side to the top of the Great Hermon"[2]
After the 1982 invasion Chouaya became part of Israeli Security Zone. On 8 June 1990 a clash occurred in the area in which four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) were killed by the South Lebanon Army (SLA).[3]
. Victor Guérin. Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. 1880. L'Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. French.