Beqaa Valley (Arabic: وادي البقاع, romanized: Wādī l-Biqā‘, Lebanese Arabic: [bʔaːʕ]; also romanized as Bekaa, Biqâ, and Becaa) is a fertile valley in...
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The Temples of the Beqaa Valley are a number of shrines and Roman temples that are dispersed around the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. The most important and...
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community, who viewed him as the most learned Shi'ite scholar in the Beqaa Valley. Al-Tufayli is a Shia Islamist, but is a very vocal critic of Iran and...
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The Beqaa valley sits between the Lebanon mountains in the west and the Anti-Lebanon range in the east; it is a part of the Great Rift Valley system...
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influenced by natural systems that extend outside the country. Thus, the Beqaa Valley is part of the Great Rift system, which stretches from southern Turkey...
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Lebanese mafia (section Beqaa Valley)
hundred kilograms of heroin per month to North America. The Beqaa Valley, a fertile valley in east Lebanon and one of the country's most important farming...
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important water resource in southern Lebanon. The river rises in the fertile Beqaa Valley, west of Baalbek, and empties into the Mediterranean Sea north of Tyre...
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Beqaa (Arabic: بقاع, Biqā‘) can refer to two places in Lebanon: Beqaa Governorate, one of six major subdivisions of Lebanon Beqaa Valley, a valley in eastern...
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Taif Agreement (section Beqaa Valley)
Tartous governorate in Syria or the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon (as there was no time limit on their presence in the Beqaa).[discuss] From 7 February 1991, the...
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was born into a Shia family in the village of Al-Nabi Shayth in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon in around 1952. He spent eight years studying theology in...
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following the September 2024 Lebanon strikes in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley. As of 25 September 2024, nearly 500,000 people were reported by Lebanese...
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Southern Lebanon and the Beqaa valley. After the Ottoman conquest circa 1516, leading Shiite families in Jabal Amil, Beqaa Valley and Mount Lebanon, which...
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attacked 1,300 Hezbollah military sites in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley. One attack hit as far as Byblos, north of Beirut. The first wave of...
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and southeast. The governorate occupies the northern portion of the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon's most important agricultural area. The UNHCR estimated the...
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its use by radical groups in Syria, including, such as ISIS. As per Beqaa Valley farmers, a farm located approximately 30 km from the capital Beirut and...
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Islamic Republic of Iran established a base in the Syrian-controlled Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. From that base, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
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From 1920 to 1943 many Shia moved to Dahieh from Southern Lebanon and Beqaa Valley, where the French mandate cracked down on Shiite anti-French rebels in...
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Operation Mole Cricket 19 (redirect from Bekaa Valley Turkey Shoot)
the early 1980s and culminated in Syria deploying SAM batteries in the Beqaa Valley. On June 6, 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon, and on the third day of the...
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steep gorges and into the Mediterranean Sea, the other 6 arise in the Beqaa Valley. Sources: List of mountains in Lebanon ECODIT (October 2005). "National...
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1990s. As of 2014, Lebanon has over 43 wineries, with nearly half in the Beqaa Valley. Despite the many conflicts of the region, the country has an annual...
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at the Elias Abou Sleiman Barracks in Ablah, Zahlé District, in the Beqaa Valley, 900 Lebanese Muslim soldiers serving with the 1st Armoured Brigade (a...
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region. After their expulsion from Turkey, the PKK relocated to the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon with the support of Hafiz al-Assad's Syrian government. The...
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Civil War, but when an explosion took place at a training camp in the Beqaa Valley, he acknowledged, in July 1975, the existence of "Amal" (Arabic acronym...
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vegetables in the Beqaa Valley. More exotic crops include avocados, grown near Byblos, and hashish (a major crop in the Beqaa Valley). Although the country...
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forms the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon, separating the Mount Lebanon range from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. Further south it is known as the Hula Valley separating...
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plain, the western mountain range (Mount Lebanon), an interior valley (the Beqaa Valley), and the eastern mountain range (the Anti-Lebanon). The Mount...
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Muslims were primarily based throughout southern Lebanon and in the Beqaa Valley in the east; and Druze and Christians populated the country's mountainous...
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Kings (Egypt) List of valleys in India List of valleys in Pakistan Beqaa Valley (Lebanon) Dang Valley (Western Nepal) Emin Valley (Kazakhstan) Ihlara,...
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rural areas, which include Akkar, Ikleem al Kharoub, and the western Beqaa Valley.[citation needed] Lebanese Shias are concentrated in Southern Lebanon...
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The Temple of Bacchus is part of the Baalbek archaeological site, in Beqaa Valley region of Lebanon. The temple complex is considered an outstanding archaeological...
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