Baalbek (/ˈbɑːlbɛk, ˈbeɪəlbɛk/; Arabic: بَعْلَبَكّ, romanized: Baʿlabakk; Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's...
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The Baalbek Stones are six massive Roman worked stone blocks in Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis), Lebanon, characterised by a megalithic gigantism unparallelled...
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after the Temple of Venus and Roma in Rome. It is situated at the Baalbek complex in Baalbek, Lebanon, It is unknown who commissioned or designed the temple...
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Temple of Bacchus (redirect from Temple of Bacchus (Baalbek))
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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considered for merging. › Baalbek-Hermel (Arabic: بعلبك - الهرمل) is a governorate of Lebanon. It comprises the districts of Baalbek and Hermel, which in turn...
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The siege of Baalbek in 1139 was undertaken by Imad al-Din Zengi who laid siege to the city in August and captured it in October. In 1139 Imad al-Din...
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Ras Baalbek (Arabic: رأس بعلبك) is a village in the northern Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. Ras Baalbek is 500 metres west of a Neolithic rock shelter called...
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Hadath Baalbek (Arabic: حدث بعلبك) is a village in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. In 1838, Eli Smith noted el-Hadeth's...
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Baalbek District (Arabic: قضاء بعلبك) is an administrative district in the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate of the Republic of Lebanon, having the city Baalbek...
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metres (3,120 ft) on a foothill of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon, settled since the Neolithic. In the...
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Fleweh Hadath Baalbek Harbata Hizzine Hlabta Hosh Barada Hosh el Rafika Hosh Snid Hosh Tal Safiya Iaat Jabbouleh Janta Jebaa (Baalbek) Kasarnaba Khodr...
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parentheses. Akkar Governorate (Halba) Akkar (Halba) Baalbek-Hermel Governorate (Baalbek) Baalbek (Baalbek) Hermel (Hermel) Beirut Governorate (Beirut) Beqaa...
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Kneisseh (Baalbek) (Arabic: الكنيسه (بعلبك)) is a local authority in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. In 1838, Eli Smith...
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Kesrwan Matn Beirut ♦ Baabda Aley Chouf South Jezzine Sidon Tyre Baalbek-Hermel Hermel Baalbek Beqaa Zahle Western Beqaa Rashaya Nabatieh Hasbaya Nabatieh...
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Jebaa (Baalbek) (Arabic: جبعا (بعلبك)) is a local authority in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. In 1838, Eli Smith noted...
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Last Plane to Baalbek (also known as Operation Baalbeck) is a 1964 Eurospy film directed by Marcello Giannini and Hugo Fregonese. It is a coproduction...
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Operation Sharp and Smooth (redirect from Baalbek operation)
חד וחלק), also known as the Baalbek operation, was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raid on a hospital in the city of Baalbek, which was being used as a...
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The Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade, also known as the Ahrar al-Sunna Baalbek Brigade, was a Sunni jihadist group active in Lebanon. It first rose to prominence...
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is a village in the Baalbek District in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. In 1838, Eli Smith noted el-Taiyibeh as a village in the Baalbek area, whose inhabitants...
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Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar (in Latin: Eparchia Helipolitana-Rubrimonasteriensis Maronitarum) is an eparchy of the Maronite Church...
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Imad al-Din Zengi (section Siege of Baalbek)
to repel Zengi. Zengi also besieged Jamal al-Din's former possession of Baalbek, and Mu'in al-Din was in charge of its defenses as well. Zengi obtained...
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Gowland 1902, pp. 22 Adam, Jean-Pierre (1977), "À propos du trilithon de Baalbek: Le transport et la mise en oeuvre des mégalithes" (PDF), Syria, 54 (1/2):...
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Baalbeck International Festival (redirect from Baalbek International Festival)
Lebanon. Since 1955, people from around the world have gone to the city of Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon to attend the annual festival. Classical...
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Syria under his own personal rule.[citation needed] In 1174, Saladin took Baalbek after a four-month siege and then entered Damascus, proclaiming himself...
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Isra'iliyat. In Mu'jam al-buldan, Yaqut al-Hamawi mentioned a grave for Ilyas in Baalbek. A shrine was later built over this grave, but it was dedicated to a "Prophet...
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separate Baalbek District and Hermel District from Beqaa Governorate to form a new governorate, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. Implementation of Baalbek-Hermel...
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Qaa (category Populated places in Baalbek District)
Qaa (Arabic: القاع), El Qaa, Al Qaa, Qaa Baalbek or Masharih al-Qaa is a town in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. A 2010 report stated that population...
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Okbarites (redirect from Moses of Baalbek)
Merwan al-Muḳammaṣ, gives the name of the founder of the sect as Moses of Baalbek, who is probably identical with Meshwi al-Ukbari. From a passage in the...
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List of Ayyubid rulers (section Emirs of Baalbek)
Mongols, and then Mamluks following the battle of Ain Jalut, 1260. See Baalbek, Middle Ages. Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Muqaddam (non-dynastic, former...
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(in Arabic أمل الإسلامية) was a Lebanese Shia military movement based in Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley. The movement was one of the core groups which later...
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