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    Lake Qaraoun (Arabic: بحيرة القرعون / ALA-LC: Buḥayrat al-Qara‘ūn) is an artificial lake or reservoir located in the southern region of the Beqaa Valley...
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    Qaraoun is a Lebanese village, 85 km from Beirut, known for its Lake Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley formed by the El Wauroun Dam built in 1959. It is an ecologically...
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    (Kakhieh) Jisr el-Burghuz Jisr el-Meshghara Jisr el-Karaoum Lake Qaraoun, an artificial lake of 12 square km, was created by the Litani River Dam, 60 meters...
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  • Wauroun Dam, Qaraoun Dam, or Albert Naqash Dam) was initiated in 1959 (construction completed in the 1960s), and created the largest artificial lake in Lebanon...
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    The Qaraoun culture is a culture of the Lebanese Stone Age around Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley. The Gigantolithic or Heavy Neolithic flint tool industry...
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    Rishon LeZion lake Dalton lake Qaraoun lake Zohar lake Agam lake Ayanot lake Darom lake Yesodot lake Netser Hazani lake Mahoz marsh Note: the dead sea...
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    rainstorms. The only permanent lake is Lake Qaraoun, about ten kilometers east of Jezzine. There is one seasonal lake, fed by springs, on the eastern...
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    which border with Syria. Within this area is the artificial lake or reservoir of Lake Qaraoun which was created in 1959. West Beqaa has a few main cities...
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  • Beqaa District and south of the Beqaa Governorate. It lies south of Lake Qaraoun on the Litani River. It lies southwest of Machgara, northeast of Ain...
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  • 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...
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    Sanctuary of Our Lady of Bechouat Roman nymphaeum of Temnin el-Foka Lake Qaraoun, the largest artificial water reservoir in Lebanon Phoenician ruins of...
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    Beqaa Valley and the other led north to Jebel Baruk, passing west of Lake Qaraoun. Menachem Einan's division was driving down a road that ended in a fork...
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    they can still be observed include Swamp Amik in Lebanon, Lake Hula in Palestine, Lake Qaraoun, Orontes River, Zarqa River, and the Jordan River, among...
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  • slightly wounding two soldiers. An Israeli drone strike on a vehicle near Lake Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley killed a Redwan commander and injured two others...
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    Eastern Sector (from Rachaiya and Hasbaiya through the Bekaa Valley around Lake Qaraoun) – IDF forces included Divisions 90 and 252, the Vardi Force and the...
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    and the second entangled in electric wires during an operation next to Lake Qaraoun and crashed. Both crews perished. On September 24, 1984, a Heron helicopter...
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    Lebanon War. He did not participate in combat, but joined his friends at Lake Qaraoun in Lebanon, in 1983, after completing his master's degree, he returned...
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    War, he commanded a provision unit nicknamed Yossi's Force, east of Lake Qaraoun. Peled's final military position was the command of the IDF's Northern...
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    importance in Lebanon, with productions significantly taking place in the Lake Qaraoun (about 30 tonnes per year of mainly carp and trout production) and other...
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  • Kfarhata Khallet el Hamra Khallet Michte Khirbet El-Knese Ksar Akil Labweh Lake Qaraoun Libbaya Lion Tower Majdal Anjar Mansourieh Maqne Maronite mummies Mayrouba...
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  • will reach Joun Lake. This lake is to be filled from various sources (e.g. Awali river, Ain Zarwa Spring, Jezzine Springs, and Lake Qaraoun). According to...
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  • Water Supply, the Emergency Primary Healthcare Restoration Project, the Lake Qaraoun Pollution Prevention Project, and a Roads and Employment Project. Current...
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    Michte Kharayeb Khirbet El-Knese Kouachra megalith field Ksar Akil Labweh Lake Qaraoun (Ain Jaouze) Libbaya Lion Tower Majdal Anjar Mansourieh Maronite mummies...
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  • and the village is Lake Quaroun (Litani river). In addition, the villages overlooks the village Qaraoun, which is just across the lake. The whole region...
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  • Polities harbouring the Uralic peoples thrive. The shores of all Siberian lakes, which filled the depressions during the Lacustrine period, abound in remains...
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  • Heavy Neolithic Shepherd Neolithic Trihedral Neolithic Pre-Pottery (A, B) Qaraoun culture Tahunian culture Yarmukian culture Halaf culture Halaf-Ubaid Transitional...
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    pottery via cultural diffusion and trade of the previous millennia from Lake Baikal in Siberia and from Europe. From there spread via the Dnieper-Donets...
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    found in the Ljubljana Marsh in Slovenia and at the Mondsee and Attersee lakes in Upper Austria, for example. A significant and far-reaching shift in human...
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    Michelle; Kennet, Derek (2017-01-20). "A record of Holocene climate change from lake geochemical analyses in southeastern Arabia" (PDF). Quaternary Research....
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    first sedentary villages were established around fresh water springs and lakes in the Levantine corridor by the Natufian culture. Higham, Thomas F. G.;...
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