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Range coordinates. 34°00′N 36°30′E / 34°N 36.5°E / 34; 36.5. 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 ...
Mount Hermon's summit straddles the border between Lebanon and Syria. 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.
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.
Geography of Lebanon. Lebanon is a small country in the Levant region of the Eastern Mediterranean, located at approximately 34˚N, 35˚E. It stretches along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and its length is almost three times its width. From north to south, the width of its terrain becomes narrower.
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 ...
Al Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in the Chouf and Aley districts of Lebanon. It is located on the slopes of Jebel Baruk mountain and has an area of 550 km 2 (210 sq mi), nearly 5.3% of the Lebanese territory, making it the largest natural reserve in Lebanon. The reserve contains the Lebanon cedar forests of Barouk, Maaser el ...
The Anti-Lebanon Mountains mark the border between Syria and Lebanon. The range has peaks of over 10,000 ft (3,000 m) and blocks precipitation from the Mediterranean Sea, so the region of Damascus is sometimes subject to droughts. However, in ancient times, the Barada River mitigated this, which originates from mountain streams fed by melting snow.
Mount Lebanon. Categories: Mountain ranges by country. Mountain ranges of Asia by country. Landforms of Lebanon.