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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, c. 150 kilometres (93 miles) long mountain range that forms most of the border between Syria and Lebanon. The border is largely defined along the crest of ...
The western range, the second major region, is the Lebanon Mountains, sometimes called Mount Lebanon, or Lebanon proper before 1920. [1] Since Roman days the term Mount Lebanon has encompassed this area. [1] Antilibanos (Anti-Lebanon) was used to designate the eastern range. [1] Geologists believe that the twin mountains once formed one range. [1]
Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Mount Hermon (Arabic: جبل الشيخ or جبل حرمون / ALA-LC: Jabal al-Shaykh ('Mountain of the Sheikh ') or Jabal Haramun; Hebrew: הַר חֶרְמוֹן, Har Ḥermōn) is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Its summit straddles the border between Syria ...
Mount Lebanon (Arabic: جَبَل لُبْنَان, jabal lubnān, Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʒabal ləbˈneːn]; Syriac: ܛܘܪ ܠܒ݂ܢܢ, ṭūr leḇnān, Syriac pronunciation: [tˤur lewˈnɔn], ṭūr lewnōn) is a mountain range in Lebanon. It is about 170 km (110 mi) long [1] and averages above 2,500 m (8,200 ft) in elevation ...
Bekaa is a medium altitude plain, with an average ground elevation of 900 metres (3,000 ft), bounded by Mount Lebanon in the west and the Anti-Lebanon mountains to the east. Based on gravity surveys in the late 1990s, it was concluded the Bekaa sedimentary basin to be up to 9 kilometres (30,000 ft) thick, probably tied to the uplift associated ...
Mount Amana is mentioned in Song of Songs (4:8) along with Lebanon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. [1] Senir, Mount Hermon, and Amana are all prominent mountains on the northern end of Israel [10] in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. [11] In this era, Lebanon referred to both the Lebanese Mountains and the Anti-Lebanese mountains without referring to any ...
The Anti-Lebanon mountain range begins in Yanta and ends in Shebaa, and measure more than 100 km (62 mi) long and 30 km (19 mi) wide. Unlike Mount Lebanon, the Anti-Lebanon is devoid of deep valleys. [2] This page contains a sortable table listing mountains of Lebanon in both the eastern and western mountain ranges.
The Beqaa is located about 30 km (19 mi) east of Beirut. The valley is situated between Mount Lebanon to the west and the Anti-Lebanon mountains to the east. [2] It is the northern continuation of the Jordan Rift Valley, and thus part of the Great Rift Valley, which stretches from Syria to the Red Sea. Beqaa Valley is 120 kilometres (75 mi ...