Aana (عانا) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the Western Bekaa District of
Lebanon
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, about from
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
. Its name comes from the
Syriac Syriac may refer to:
*Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic
*Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region
* Syriac alphabet
** Syriac (Unicode block)
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* Neo-Aramaic languages a ...
word "'ono", which means 'the flock'. The village has two churches, one dedicated to St. Elias (
Elijah
Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) was, according to the Books of ...
) and the other to the
Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother o ...
in the adjacent borough of
Deir Tahniche
Deir or DEIR may refer to:
* Ad Deir or The Monastery, a building in Petra, Jordan
*Tell Deir, an archaeological site in Lebanon
*Deir ez-Zor or Ad-Deir, a city in Syria
* Draft environmental impact report, a document required in United States env ...
. The village produces
wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...
and
fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.
Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...
. The wines of
Chateau Musar Chateau Musar is the name of a Lebanese winery in Ghazir, Lebanon, north of the capital Beirut. Musar grapes grow in the Beqaa Valley, a fertile sunny valley at an elevation of , situated east of Beirut.
History
The winery was established by G ...
grow in a tract of land about long, land that is the home of Lebanese-Brazilian
Carlos Eddé
Carlos Eddé ( ar, كارلوس إدة; born in 1956) is a Lebanese politician. He was the honorary president of Lebanese National Bloc
In 2000, he succeeded his uncle Raymond Eddé as leader of the Lebanese National Bloc party ("Al-Amid" meanin ...
.
History
In 1838,
Eli Smith
Eli Smith (born September 13, 1801, in Northford, Connecticut, to Eli and Polly (Whitney) Smith, and died January 11, 1857, in Beirut, Lebanon) was an American Protestant missionary and scholar. He graduated from Yale College in 1821 and from Andov ...
noted it as 'Ana''; a village on the West side of the
Beqaa Valley
The Beqaa Valley ( ar, links=no, وادي البقاع, ', Lebanese ), also transliterated as Bekaa, Biqâ, and Becaa and known in classical antiquity as Coele-Syria, is a fertile valley in eastern Lebanon. It is Lebanon's most important ...
.
[Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p]
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Physical properties
Average altitude:
References
Bibliography
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External links
Aana
localiban
Populated places in Western Beqaa District
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