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Marjaba (Arabic: مرجبا) is a Lebanese village located in the Matn District in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon. The population is almost exclusively Christian. [1] [2]
Hemlaya (Arabic: حملايا) is a Lebanese village located in the Matn District in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The village is mentioned in a song by Fairuz , where she refers to it without providing the actual lyrics.
Deir el Ahmar, like the rest of Lebanon, was part of the Roman Empire. During the third century A.D., the Roman emperor Caracalla built a temple for the God Jupiter in the vicinity of the village. The Temple of Jupiter would later become the center of the Syriac Orthodox Christians. [1]
Mzaar Kfardebian (Arabic: مزار كفردبيان — formerly Faraya Mzaar [1]) is a ski area in Lebanon and the largest ski resort in the Middle East. It is located one hour away from Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. It is also referred to as Ouyoune el Simane. [2]
Dhour Choueir in 2023 Bteghrine in 2005 Rabieh in 2005 Metn coastal highway at Dbayeh in 2008. Matn (Arabic: قضاء المتن, Qaḍāʾ al-Matn), sometimes spelled Metn (or preceded by the article El, as in El Matn), is a district in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. [1]
Lebanon, [b] officially the Republic of Lebanon, [c] is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, [11] it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west; Cyprus lies a short distance from the coastline.
Mount Lebanon also lent its name to two political designations: a semi-autonomous province in Ottoman Syria that was established in 1861 and the central Governorate of modern Lebanon (see Mount Lebanon Governorate). The Mount Lebanon administrative region emerged in a time of rise of nationalism after the civil war of 1860.
Exceeding 140 kilometres (87 mi) in length, the Litani is the longest river that flows entirely in Lebanon and provides an average annual flow estimated at 920 million cubic meters (over 240 million Imperial gallons or 243 million U.S. gallons).