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    The Anti-Lebanon mountains (Arabic: جبال لبنان الشرقية, romanized: Jibāl Lubnān ash-Sharqiyyah, lit. 'eastern mountains of Lebanon') are a southwest–northeast-trending...
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    Shuf Mountains. The third geographical region is the Beqaa Valley. This central highland between the Lebanon Mountains and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains is...
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    valley (the Beqaa Valley), and the eastern mountain range (the Anti-Lebanon). The Mount Lebanon range stretches from the northern region of Jabal Akkar southward...
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    on the Lebanese geography and therefore, the first red represents the Mount Lebanon and the second red represents the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and the...
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    winds blowing across the desert. Before reaching the Lebanese border and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, the Jabal an Nusayriyah range terminates, leaving a...
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    French Army of the Levant on 24 July 1920 near Khan Maysalun in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Damascus. In October 1918,...
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  • main geographical areas: the coastal plain, Mount Lebanon, the Beqaa Valley and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The climate is Mediterranean, with the coastal...
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    The Qalamoun Mountains (Arabic: جبال القلمون, romanized: Jabāl al-Qalamūn) are the northeastern portion of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, and they are northeast...
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    Lebanon. The term may also include those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state...
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    small bases and fortifications in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, where they operated against Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army. On June 23, 2013, intense clashes...
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    Mount Amana (category Geography of Lebanon)
    ancient name for the southern Anti-Lebanon Mountains. Mount Amana is at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, near the source of the river Abana...
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    and ensure a defensible border, France moved the Lebanon-Syrian border to the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, east of the Beqaa Valley, territory which had historically...
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    Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary. Geologists debate whether the Anti-Lebanon Mountains are part of the southern extent of the fold belt and whether some...
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    the Anti-Lebanon mountains, supplied with water by the Barada River. The Anti-Lebanon mountains which mark the border between Syria and Lebanon, block...
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    following the Anti-Lebanon Mountains via a series of irregular lines, until reaching Mount Hermon. The precise location of the Lebanese–Israeli–Syrian...
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    approximately 80 km (50 mi) north of Damascus, on the eastern slopes of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The main church of the monastic compound hosts precious frescoes...
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  • and Jubb'adin, until the Syrian Civil War also in Bakhʽa – in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains of western Syria. Bakhʽa was completely destroyed during the war...
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    and northern Iraq, with an extension south along the Anti-Lebanon Mountains of Syria and Lebanon. Traces of the earliest domesticated instances were recovered...
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    fault which separates An-Nusayriyah Mountain from the coastal Mount Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains of Lebanon, in a feature known as the Homs Gap...
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    Anti-Lebanon range runs parallel to the Lebanon mountains, its highest peak is in Mount Hermon at 2,814 metres (9,232 ft). The mountains of Lebanon are...
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    cross-desert route connecting Lebanon with the Euphrates river valley. The Anti-Lebanon Mountains mark the border between Syria and Lebanon. The range has peaks...
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    originally referred to the "hollow" Beqaa Valley between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges, but sometimes it was applied to a broader area of...
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  • Western Neo-Aramaic (~3,000) persists in only two villages in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in western Syria. They have retained use of the once-dominant lingua...
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    The Mountain War (Arabic: حرب الجبل | Harb al-Jabal, Lebanese Arabic:, [ħarbu l.d͡ʒʊˈbæːl], also known as the War of the Mountain, was a subconflict between...
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  • that may have been in the Beqaa valley of Lebanon, extended along the eastern side of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains reaching Hamath to the north. The kingdom...
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    various creeds Mizrahi Jews Mandeans Arameans (Syriacs) in the Anti-Lebanon mountains. Western Neo-Aramaic is spoken in Maaloula and Jubb'adin. Demographics...
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  • villages in the mountains of Lebanon and in the Anti-Lebanon mountains in Syria. In fact, up until the 17th century, travelers in the Lebanon region still...
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    southern extremities of the Syrian Desert to central Syria, the Anti-Lebanon mountains, and the Beqaa Valley. The Muslim conquest of the Levant (634–640)...
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    Most important of these is the Barada, a river that rises in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and disappears into the desert. The Barada flows out of the karst...
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    storms to winds arising on the summits of Mount Hermon, in the Anti-Lebanon mountains to the north. The Anglican clergyman John Clowes commented that...
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