Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
are subdivided into municipalities. The following is the list of the municipalities of Lebanon.
Andket
Andaket, Aandqet, ( ar, عندقت) is a Maronite Christian village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Andakid'' as a Maronite village, located east of esh-Sheikh Muhammed
Cheikh Mohammad ( ar, الشيخ محم ...
Bazbina
Bezbina ( ar, بزبينا) is a small town in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon.
The population in Bezbina is mainly Greek Orthodox Christians and Sunni Muslims. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted the village, called ''Bzebina'', located east of ...
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Bebnine
Bebnine ( ar, ببنين) is a town located in the Akkar District of the Akkar Governorate in Lebanon. Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslims. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted the village, whose inhabitants were Sunni Muslims and Greek Orthodox, l ...
Berkayel
Berqayel or Berkayel ( ar, برقايل) is one of the largest and the most historical towns in Akkar Governorate in northern Lebanon. Berkail is about 25 km north Tripoli. Berkail is well known by its olive production and green fields. It is ...
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Bireh
Al-Bireh, al-Birah, or el-Bira ( ar, البيرة; also known historically as Castrum Mahomeria, Magna Mahomeria, Mahomeria Major, Birra, or Beirothah) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian city in the central West Bank, north of Jerusalem. It i ...
Charbila
Charbila (Arabic: شربيلا ) is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon, its population is mostly composed of Greek Orthodox numbering around 737 eligible voters according to the civil state registers. During summer the population grosses to ...
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Cheikh Mohammad
Cheikh Mohammad ( ar, الشيخ محمد) is a village situated in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. Situated 400 metres above sea level, in between two mountains, it overlooks the Akkar plains and sea. It is made up of approximately 450 houses, with ...
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Cheikh Ayyash
Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...
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Cheikh Taba
Cheikh Taba ( ar, الشيخ طابا) is a town in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon, close to the border with Syria.
The population in Cheikh Taba are mostly Greek Orthodox and Maronite. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted the village as ''esh- ...
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Daher el Laysine
Daher, or DAHER, is a French industrial conglomerate. It is operational across the aerospace, defence, nuclear, and automotive industrial sectors in the fields of manufacturing, services, and transport.
It was founded in 1863 as a shipping co ...
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Deir Jennine
Deir Jannine ( ar, دير جنين) is a town in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon, close to the border with Syria.
The population in Deir Jannine are mostly Maronite. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted the village as ''Deir Jenin'', whose inhabita ...
Fnaydek
Fnaidek, Fnaydeq, ( ar, فنيدق) is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. Its inhabitants are ¨ Sunni Muslims. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''Fendik'' as a Sunni Muslim village, located south of esh-Sheikh Muhammed
Cheikh Mohammad ...
Kobayat
Al Qoubaiyat, Koubeiyat, Kobayat or Qoubayat ( ar, ٱلْقُبَيَّات) is the biggest Christian village in the Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. Its population is mostly composed of Maronites numbering around 12,000 persons according to the civil ...
Mechmech
Mish Mish (), also spelled Michmich, is a village located in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. Mish Mish is situated 1100 metres above sea level in the mountainous terrain of the north. The closest major city to the village is Tripoli, Lebanon, Tripoli ...
Rahbeh
Rahbeh, Rahbé, ( ar, رحبة) is a city located in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. The dwellers are Greek-Orthodox and other confessions. In 2009, there were 6,133 eligible voters in Rahbeh.
History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted the village, whose i ...
Tal Maayan
TAL or Tal may refer to:
Acronym
* Ralph M. Calhoun Memorial Airport (IATA code: TAL), in Tanana, Alaska
* TAL – Transportes Aéreos Ltda, the original name of TAC – Transportes Aéreos Catarinense, a Brazilian airline
* TAL effector, a fam ...
Zawarib
Zawarib, Al-Zawarib, Zouarib ( ar, الزواريب) is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon, situated on a hill above the Akkar valley and overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Zawarib is surrounded by the village of Miniara from the South and Sh ...
Ain
Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where it ...
Al Khodr
AL, Al, Ål or al may stand for:
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* Al (''Aladdin'') or Aladdin, the main character in Disney's ''Aladdin'' media
* Al (''EastEnders''), a minor character in the British soap opera
* Al (''Fullmetal ...
Baalbeck
Baalbek (; ar, بَعْلَبَكّ, Baʿlabakk, Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about northeast of Beirut. It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. In Greek and Roman ...
Bednayel
Bednayel ( ar, بدنايل (بعلبك)) is a local authority in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''Bednayas population as being predominantly Metawileh
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Brital
Brital ( ar, بريتال) is a village located in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Brital (under the name of ''Bereitan'') as a Metawileh village in the Baalbek area.
Brital has ...
Bodai
Bodai ( ar, بوداي) is a Lebanese town in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, situated west of the Litani River in the foothills of Mount Lebanon. Bodai is located 15 km (9 miles) northwest of the ancient city of Baalbek an ...
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Chaat
Chaat, or chāt (IAST: ''cāṭ)'' () is a family of savoury snacks that originated in North India, typically served as an hors d'oeuvre or at roadside tracks from stalls or food carts across South Asia in North India, Pakistan, Nepal and ...
Deir el Ahmar
Deir El Ahmar ( ar, دير الأحمر) is a Lebanese town, located 100 km from Beirut and 22 km northwest of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.
Demography and religion
The population of Deir el Ahmar is approximately 23,000. Th ...
Hadath Baalbeck
Hadath Baalbek ( ar, حدث بعلبك) is a village in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''el-Hadeths population as being predominantly Metawileh
Lebanese Shia Muslims ( ar, ...
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Harbata
Harbata ( ar, حربتا) is a village located in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon.
History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Harbata's population as being predominantly Metawileh.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appen ...
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Hizzine
Hizzine ( ar, حزين) is a village located in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon.
Tell Hazzine
The archaeoloical site Tell Hazzine (Hizzin) is nearby. This site became active in the EB IV. An occupation reached its ...
Hosh el Rafika
Haouch Er Rafqa ( ar, حوش الرافقة) is a Lebanese local authority in the Baalbek District in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''Haush er-Rafika'' as a Metawileh
Lebanese Shia Muslims ( ar, ال ...
Hosh Tal Safiya
Haouch Tall Safiyeh or Haouch Tal Safiya (حوش تل صفية) is a village and an archaeological site 3 km southwest of Yaate near Baalbek in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. It dates at least to the Neolithic period. The village is mostly Shiit ...
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Iaat
Iaat ( ar, إيعات also transliterated as Ya'ad, Yaad, Yaat, or Iaad) is a town and municipality located approximately 5 kilometers northwest of Baalbek, in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon. The town is famed for its Corinthian column, the Iaat ...
Khraibeh
Khreibeh ( ar, الخريبة) is a village in the Baalbek District in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''el-Khureibeh'' as a Metawileh
Lebanese Shia Muslims ( ar, المسلمون الشيعة اللبن ...
Labweh
Labweh ( ar, اللبوة), Laboué, Labwe or Al-Labweh is a village at an elevation of on a foothill of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon.
History
The Neolithic settlements represented at Labweh ...
Makneh
Maqne or Maakne ( ar, مقنة) is a town and municipality in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon.
Maqne I
Along with Qaa, Maqne I or Maakne I is a type site of the Shepherd Neolithic industry. The surface site was discover ...
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Nabi Othman
Nabi Osman ( ar, النبي عثمان) is a village in the northern part of the Bekaa Valley, on the lower slopes of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. It is located in Baalbek District and lies on the highway linking Lebanon and Syria.
The town ...
Ram – Jbenniyeh
Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to:
Animals
* A male sheep
* Ram cichlid, a freshwater tropical fish
People
* Ram (given name)
* Ram (surname)
* Ram (director) (Ramsubramaniam), an Indian Tamil film director
* RAM (musician) (born 1974), Dutch
* Ra ...
Saayde
Saaideh ( ar, السعيدة) is a local authority in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, ...
Talya
Holalkere is a town and taluk headquarters located near Chitradurga in the Indian state of Karnataka.
Places of worship
The town has a temple to the deity Ganesha and was established in 1475 CE by Guthyappa Nayaka. The temple contains Gane ...
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Taraya
Taraya ( ar, طاريا) is a village in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. It has an area of and is at an elevation of .
History
In 1838, Eli Smith
Eli Smith (born September 13, 1801, in Northford, Connecticut ...
Temnin el Fawka
Temnin el-Foka ( ar, تمنين الفوقا) is a village located approximately 28 kilometers southwest of Baalbek in the Baalbek District, in the Beqaa valley of Lebanon, at an altitude of 1100 meters above sea level. The village is famous for i ...
Hermel District
The Hermel District ( ar, قضاء الهرمل) is a district in the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate of Lebanon. Its population is estimated at 48,000 inhabitants, with its semi-arid land contributing to its low population density. It borders the Akka ...
Hermel
Hermel ( ar, الهرمل) is a town in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. It is the capital of Hermel District. Hermel is home to a Lebanese Red Cross First Aid Center. Hermel's inhabitants are predominantly Shia Muslims.
There is an ancient ...
Kasser
Kasser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alexandra Kasser (born 1967), American attorney and politician
* Elsbeth Kasser (1910–1992), Swiss nurse
* Rodolphe Kasser (1927–2013), Swiss philologist, archaeologist, and sch ...
Beirut Governorate
Beirut Governorate ( ar, محافظة بيروت, ; french: Gouvernorat de Beyrouth) is a Lebanese governorate that consists of one district and one city, Beirut, which is also its capital, and the capital of Lebanon.
The area of this governora ...
Beirut District
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 of ...
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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 ...
Beqaa Governorate
Beqaa ( ') is a governorate in Lebanon.
Districts
Since 2014, Beqaa Governorate contains three districts:
* West Beqaa
* Rashaya
* Zahle
A law was passed in 2003 to separate Baalbek District and Hermel District from Beqaa Governorate to form a ...
Ain Arab
Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where i ...
Ain Harcha
Ain Harcha (or Ain Hircha) is a village situated in the Rashaya District and south of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. It is located east of Mount Hermon close to the Syrian border south of Dahr El Ahmar. There it is a roman temple.
The villa ...
Ayha
Aaiha (or Aiha) ( ar, عيحا) is a village, plain, lake, and temporary wetland situated in the Rashaya District and south of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. It is located in an intermontane basin near Mount Hermon and the Syrian border, app ...
Bireh
Al-Bireh, al-Birah, or el-Bira ( ar, البيرة; also known historically as Castrum Mahomeria, Magna Mahomeria, Mahomeria Major, Birra, or Beirothah) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian city in the central West Bank, north of Jerusalem. It i ...
Helwa
Halva (also halvah, halwa, and other spellings, Persian : حلوا) is a type of confectionery originating from Persia and widely spread throughout the Middle East. The name is used for a broad variety of recipes, generally a thick paste made f ...
Kawkaba
Kawkaba (), known to the Crusaders as Coquebel, was a Palestinian Arab village that was occupied by Israel during Operation Yoav during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and depopulated.
Location
The village was situated on an uneven stretch of red-brow ...
Kherbet Rouha
Kherbet Rouha ( ar, خربة روحا) is a town in the Rashaya District of Lebanon. It lies in the Bekaa Valley, about northwest of Mount Hermon. The town is known for having the largest mosque towers in Lebanon (tallest minaret: in height).
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Mhaydseh
Mhaydseh, (محيدثة) Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (sometimes pronounced plainly as "Al Mhaydseh","Muhaydhi") () is a town in the south-eastern portion of the Bekaa, a governorate of the Republic of Lebanon. Mhaydseh is part of the Rashaya District. ...
Western Bekaa District
Western Beqaa District ( ar, قضاء البقاع الغربي) is an administrative district in the Beqaa Governorate of the Republic of Lebanon. The capital is Joub Jannine which has a population of 12,000.
Main cities and towns
West Beqaa h ...
Ain Zebdeh
Ain Zebdeh ( ar, عين زبدة), is a village located in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, ...
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Ammik
Aammiq is a village in the Western Beqaa District in Lebanon. It is also the name of an archaeological site. Archaeology
Aamiq or Aammiq II is an archaeological site southwest of Zahle in the Aammiq Wetland, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon.
It was first ...
Aytanit
Aitanite/ Aitaneet (عيتنيت) is a village in Lebanon, in the West Beqaa Governorate, Beqaa region. Aitanit is located in the southern region of Lebanon, particularly the Beqaa Valley. Aitanit is also located about 1070 meters above sea level ...
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Baaloul
Baaloul (in Arabic بعلول, . Tr '' B'alūl '') is a town located in the western Bekaa Valley Lebanon. Geography
Baaloul lies within the upper Litani river basin and is located along a mountainous area bordering Mount Lebanon. It is primarily ...
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Bab Mareh
Bab Mareaa ( ar, باب مارع), is a village located in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, ...
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Ghaza
A ''ghazi'' ( ar, غازي, , plural ''ġuzāt'') is an individual who participated in ''ghazw'' (, ''wikt:ghazwa, ''), meaning military expeditions or raiding. The latter term was applied in early Islamic literature to expeditions led by the Is ...
Kamed el Laouz
Kamid el-Loz, also spelled Kamid al-Lawz, is located in West Bekaa, Lebanon. The settlement has a population numbering several thousand, mostly Sunni, people and is also a site of archaeological excavations.
History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted ...
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Karaoun
Qaraoun is a Lebanese village, 85 km from Beirut, known for its Lake Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley formed by the El Wauroun Dam built in 1959. It is an ecologically fragile zone in the Western Beqaa District. The village lies about 800 m abo ...
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Kefraya
Kefraya ( ar, كفريا / ALA-LC: ''Kifrayā'') is a village in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in the Republic of Lebanon, approximately northwest of Joub Jannine. The village is home to a mixed population of Sunnis and Gr ...
Lala
Lala may refer to:
Geography
* Lala language (disambiguation) Places
* Lala (Naples Metro), an underground metro station in Naples, Italy
* Lala, Assam, a town in Assam, India
* Lala, Ilam, a village in Ilam Province, Iran
* Lala, Lanao del No ...
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Lebbaya
Libbaya (لبايا) is a village in the Beka'a Valley of Lebanon, situated in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate. It lies southeast of Sohmor. There it is a roman temple.
During the war in the 1980s, four Israeli Cobra helico ...
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Machghara
Machghara ( ar, مشغرة), also spelled Mashghara, is a town in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, situated in the Western Beqaa District and south of the Beqaa Governorate. It lies just to the northwest of Sohmor and southwest of Lake Qaraoun, south ...
Mansoura
Mansoura (' , rural: ) is a city in Egypt, with a population of 960,423. It is the capital of the Dakahlia Governorate.
Etymology
''Mansoura'' in Arabic means "victorious". The city is named after the El Mansoura Battle against Louis IX of Fr ...
Saghbine
Saghbine ( ar, صغبين), is a village located in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon.
History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted it as Sughbin''; a Maronite and Catholic
The Catholic Church, also known as the Rom ...
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Sohmor
Sohmor ( ar, سحمر) is a small town in the Beka'a Valley of Lebanon, situated in the Western Beqaa District and south of the Beqaa Governorate. It lies south of Lake Qaraoun on the Litani River. It lies southwest of Machgara, northeast of ...
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Souairy
Sawiri or Sawairy or es-Sawairi (الصويري) is a town in the eastern part of Lebanon.
It is located in the West Bekaa District near the Syrian border, in the Governorates of Lebanon, governorate of Beqaa Governorate, Beqaa in the foothil ...
Ablah
Ablah ( ar, عبلة, ‘Ablah; ku, Ebla) is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. Situated in a wadi surrounded by the Aqil mountains and some northeast of the Shahba reservoir, it is located south of Akhtarin and some ...
Chtaura
Chtaura ( ar, شتورا) is a town in Lebanon in the fertile Beqaa Valley, Beqaa valley located between the Mount Lebanon and Syria. It is located halfway on the Beirut - Damascus highway. It is located from Beirut.
Chtaura is the valley's hub ...
Majdel Anjar
Majdal Anjar ( ar, مجدل عنجر; also transliterated Majdel Anjar) is a village of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. Majdal Anjar is an overwhelmingly Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Muslim town.
History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''Mejdel 'Anjar '' as ...
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Massa
Massa may refer to:
Places
*Massa, Tuscany, the administrative seat of the Italian province of Massa-Carrara.
*Massa (river), river in Switzerland
* Massa (Tanzanian ward), administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Ta ...
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Mekssi
Makseh ( ar, مكسة), is a village located in the Zahlé District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in W ...
Nabi Ayla
Nabi Ayla ( ar, نبي ايلا), is a village located in the Zahlé District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. The village is named after the biblical Elijah, known to the Lebanese as Ayla, and the Mausoleum of Al-Nabi Ayla is attributed to him ...
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Niha Bekaa
Niha may refer to:
Places Lebanon
* Niha, Chouf
** Fortress of Niha
* Niha, Zahlé
** Hosn Niha, an archaeological site
Syria
* Niha, Idlib
* Niha, Tartus
Other uses
* Nepal Ice Hockey Association (NIHA)
See also
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* Nam Niha, a village ...
Saadnayel
Saadnayel ( ar, سعدنايل) is a town in the Bekaa Valley in the Zahlé District of Lebanon. It has a population of around 52,500, mostly Sunnis.
Saadnayel lies away from Beirut. The town is located strategically near the crossroads between ...
Zahlé
Zahlé ( ar, زَحْلة) is the capital and the largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. With around 150,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut and Tripoli and the fourth largest taking the whole urban area (t ...
Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate
Keserwan-Jbeil ( ar, كسروان - جبيل) is the most recently created governorate of Lebanon. It consists of the districts of Jbeil and Keserwan. Keserwan-Jbeil covers an area of and is bounded by the North Governorate to the north, the ...
Byblos District
Byblos District ( ar, قضاء جبيل; transliteration: ''Qadaa' Jbeil''), also called the Jbeil District (''Jbeil'' is Lebanese Arabic for "Byblos"; standard Arabic ''Jubail''), is a district (''qadaa'') of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Leb ...
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Afqa
Afqa ( ar, افقا; also spelled ''Afka'') is a village and municipality located in the Byblos District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, northeast of Beirut in Lebanon. It has an average elevation of 1,200 meters above sea level and a total la ...
Aqoura
Aqoura ( ar, عاقورة, also spelled ''Aaqoura'', "Akoura") is a mountainous village in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is 68 kilometers north of Beirut. Aqoura has an average elevation of 1,600 meters above sea ...
Amsheet
Amsheet (, '; also spelled Amchit) is a seaside town and municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon, about 40 km north of Beirut. The town's average elevation is 140 meters above sea level and its total land a ...
Berbara
Berbara ( ar, البربارة, also spelled ''al-Barbara'') is a municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located along the Mediterranean coast, 48 kilometers north of Beirut. Berbara has an average eleva ...
Byblos
Byblos ( ; gr, Βύβλος), also known as Jbeil or Jubayl ( ar, جُبَيْل, Jubayl, locally ; phn, 𐤂𐤁𐤋, , probably ), is a city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is believed to have been first occupied between 880 ...
Ehmej
Ehmej ( ar, إهمج; also spelled ''Ihmij'') is a municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 57 kilometers northeast of Beirut. Ehmej's inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholics. There are tw ...
Hjoula
Hjoula ( ar, حجولا) is a municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is 70 kilometers north of Beirut. Hjoula has an elevation of between 920 and 1,100 meters above sea level. Hjoula has a total land area o ...
Jaj
Jaj ( ar, جاج, also spelled ''Jaje'') is a mountainous village in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is 68 kilometers north of Beirut. Jaj has an average elevation of 1,220 meters above sea level and a total land are ...
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Laqlouq
Laqlouq ( ar, لقلوق), also spelled ''Laklouk'' and also known as ′Arab Laqlouq ( ar, عرب القلوق) is a small mountainous village in mountainous area in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 69 kilo ...
Lehfed
Lehfed ( ar, لحفد, also known as ''Lihfid'') is a municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is 55 kilometers north of Beirut. Lehfed has an average elevation of 1000 meters above sea level and a total land a ...
Mechmech
Mish Mish (), also spelled Michmich, is a village located in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. Mish Mish is situated 1100 metres above sea level in the mountainous terrain of the north. The closest major city to the village is Tripoli, Lebanon, Tripoli ...
Nahr Ibrahim
The Abraham River (, Nahr Ibrahim) also known as Adonis River (), is a small river in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon, with a length of about . The river emerges from a huge cavern, the Afqa Grotto, nearly above sea level before it dr ...
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Qartaba
Qartaba ( ar, قرطبا, also spelled ''Kartaba'' or ''Artaba'') is a mountainous town in the Byblos District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 57 kilometers north Beirut on the mountains above Byblos at an average altitu ...
Yanouh
Yanouh ( ar, يانوح) is a village and municipality in the Byblos District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 94 kilometers north of Beirut. Yanouh's inhabitants are predominantly Maronites, Maronite Catholics. Its ave ...
Keserwan District
Keserwan District ( ar, قضاء كسروان, transliteration: ''Qaḍā' Kisrawān'') is a district (''qadaa'') in Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon, to the northeast of Lebanon's capital Beirut. The capital, Jounieh, is overwhelmingly Maroni ...
Aintoura
Aintoura ( ar, عينطورة) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 18 kilometers north of Beirut. The average elevation of Aintoura is 230 meters above sea level and its tot ...
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Ajaltoun
Ajaltoun ( ar, عجلتون) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon. It is located 24 km (15 miles) north of Beirut. Ajaltoun's average elevation is 850 meters (2800') above sea level ...
Ballouneh
Ballouneh ( ar, بلونة) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is located 18 kilometers north of Beirut. It has an approximate area of 3.93 square kilometers and an average elevatio ...
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Batha Batha may refer to:
* Batha Region, one of the regions of Chad
* Batha Prefecture, a former division of Chad
* Batha, Lebanon, one of the villages in Keserwan District in Lebanon
* Batha, an alternate term for garrigue, or Mediterranean scrubland
* ...
Bouar
Bouar is a market town in the western Central African Republic, lying on the main road from Bangui (437 km) to the frontier with Cameroon (210 km). The city is the capital of Nana-Mambéré prefecture, has a population of 40,353, while t ...
Faraya
Faraya ( ar, فاريا) is a village and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. It is located 46 kilometers north of Beirut. Elevation start from 1290 meters to 2000 meters above sea level and its tota ...
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Fatqa
Fatqa ( ar, فتقا) is a village located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a c ...
Ghazir
Ghazir ( ar, غزير) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is located north of Beirut. It has an average elevation of 380 meters above sea level and a total land area of . The tow ...
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Ghbaleh
Ghbaleh ( ar, غبالة, also spelled ''Ghebaleh'') is a village and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in central Lebanon. It is located 42 kilometers northeast of Beirut. Its average elevation is 890 meters ...
Jeita
The is a Japanese trade organization for the electronics and IT industries. It was formed in 2000 from two earlier organizations, the Electronic Industries Association of Japan and the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association.
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Jounieh
Jounieh ( ar, جونيه, or ''Juniya'', ) is a coastal city in Keserwan District, about north of Beirut, Lebanon. Since 2017, it has been the capital of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate. Jounieh is known for its seaside resorts and bustling nightlife ...
Rayfoun
Rayfoun ( ar, ريفون; also spelled ''Reifun'' or ''Raifoun'') is a village and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. The village is about north of Beirut. It has an average elevation of 1 ...
Shayle
Sehaileh ( ar, سهيلة; also spelled ''Seheileh'' or ''Shayleh'') is a municipality in the Keserwan District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. It is located 25 kilometers north of Beirut. Its average elevation is 550 meters above sea ...
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Tabarja
Tabarja ( ar, طبرجا) is an ancient coastal village in Lebanon, situated in Kesrouan,
Etymology
The name "Tabarja" is of uncertain origins. It bears a similarity to the Turkic word "Tabarjin", which means "battle axe", and also to the Persi ...
Dafne
''Dafne'' is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini survives complete; the mostly lost music was completed by Jacopo Peri, but at least two of the six surviving fragment ...
Yahchouch
Yahchouch ( ar, يحشوش) is a municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon. It is located 42 kilometers north of Beirut. Its average elevation is 670 meters above sea level and its total land area is 636 he ...
Zouk Mikael
Zouk Mikael ( ar, زوق مكايل, also spelled Zuq Mikha'il or Zouk Mkayel) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon. Its inhabitants are predominantly Melkite and Maronite Catholics.
The ...
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Zouk Mosbeh
Zouk Mosbeh (Arabic: زوق مصبح) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon. It is located 12 kilometers north of Beirut. Zouk Mosbeh's average elevation is 170 meters above sea level and ...
Mount Lebanon Governorate french: Gouvernorat du Mont-Liban
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Aley District
Aley ( ar, عاليه) is a district (''qadaa'') in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, to the south-east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The capital is Aley. Aley city was previously known as the "bride of the summers" during the 1960 and 1970s, when Aley ...
Ain el Remmaneh
Ain El Remmaneh (Arabic: عين الرمانة, lit. spring of the pomegranate) is a Christian neighborhood, in the Baabda district of Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, a suburb of Beirut and part of Greater Beirut.
History and war
In the 1950s, the p ...
Ain Ksour
Ain Ksour ( ar, عين كسور), is a village in Aley District, Lebanon.
Municipal elections are held every four years. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted the place, called Ain Kesur'', located in ''El-Ghurb el-Fokany''; Upper el-Ghurb.Robinso ...
Aley
Aley ( ar, عاليه) is a major city in Lebanon. It is the capital of the Aley District and fourth largest city in Lebanon.
The city is located on Mount Lebanon, 15 km uphill from Beirut on the freeway to Damascus. Aley has the nickn ...
Bdadoun
Bdadoun ( ar, بدادون) (also Bdadun, Bde‘doun, Bdādūn), is a town in Mount Lebanon which makes up one of the 70 towns and villages in the Lebanese district of Aley. It has an estimated population of 3,000. It is 499 meters above sea le ...
Chanay
Chanay () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Ain department
The following is a list of the 393 communes of the Ain department of France.
The communes cooperate in the followin ...
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Charoun
Charoun or Sharoun ( ar, شارون), is a Lebanese village located in the Aley District. Charoun is 31 kilometers away from Beirut and neighbors the town Saoufar. Its name derives from the Aramaic languages meaning the agricultural hills. Charou ...
Choueifat
Choueifat ( ar, شويفات, also transliterated Shuwayfat) is one of the biggest and most important cities in southeast of Beirut in Lebanon. The town is a Druze enclave that lies on the eastern side of Beirut's airport. The local population of ...
Kfar Matta
KFAR is a commercial radio station programming news/talk radio, talk in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, broadcasting on 660 Amplitude Modulation, AM. Founded in 1939 by industrialist Austin E. Lathrop, KFAR is the oldest radio station in Fai ...
Ramlieh
Ramlieh ( ar, رملية), also spelled Ramliye or Ramliyeh is a List of cities and towns in Lebanon, Lebanese village located about 34 km from the capital Beirut in the Aley District of Mount Lebanon.
External linksRamlieh Localiban (English)Raml ...
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Ras el jabal
Ras or RAS may refer to:
Arts and media
* RAS Records Real Authentic Sound, a reggae record label
* Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol, a south Tyrolese public broadcasting service
* Rás 1, an Icelandic radio station
* Rás 2, an Icelandic radio statio ...
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Rechmaya
Rechmaya ( ar, رشميا), is a village in the Aley District of Lebanon. Bechara El Khoury, Lebanon's first president after independence, was born in Rechmaya on August 10, 1890. The town is located in a mountainous area.
Etymology
The name Rec ...
Baabda District
Baabda District ( ar, قضاء بعبدا, transliteration: ''Qada' Baabda''), sometimes spelled ''B'abda'', is a district (''qadaa'') of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, to the south and east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The region is als ...
Baabda
Baabda ( ar, بعبدا) is the capital city of Baabda District as well as the capital of Mount Lebanon Governorate, western Lebanon. Baabda was the capital city of the autonomous Ottoman Mount Lebanon. Baabda is known for the Ottoman Castle (t ...
Bourj el-Barajneh
Bourj el-Barajneh ( ar, برج البراجنة, lit=Tower of Towers) is a municipality located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, in Lebanon. The municipality lies between Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport and the town of Haret Hreik ...
Chiyah
Chiyah () is situated in the west region of the Lebanese capital of Beirut and is part of Greater Beirut.
Location
Chiyah is located in the southwest suburbs of the capital Beirut, bordered by Haret Hreik, Ghobeiry, Hadath, Hazmiyeh, Furn-el-ch ...
Falougha
Falougha - Khalwat Falougha ( ar, فالوغا) is a municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. The municipality consists of the villages of Falougha and Khalwat Falougha. It is 35 kilometers east of Beirut. Falougha ...
Ain el Remmaneh
Ain El Remmaneh (Arabic: عين الرمانة, lit. spring of the pomegranate) is a Christian neighborhood, in the Baabda district of Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, a suburb of Beirut and part of Greater Beirut.
History and war
In the 1950s, the p ...
Hadath
Al-Ḥadath al-Ḥamrā' (Arabic for "Hadath the Red") or Adata ( el, ) was a town and fortress near the Taurus Mountains (modern southeastern Turkey), which played an important role in the Byzantine–Arab Wars.
Location
The town was located ...
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Hammana
Hammana ( ar, حمانا) is a town in Lebanon, about 26 km (16 miles) east of Beirut. At an altitude of 1200 m (about 4000 ft) above sea level, Hammana is in the Mount Lebanon Governorate in the district (or Caza) of Baabda. Hammana i ...
Haret Hreik
Haret Hreik ( ar, حارة حريك) is a mixed Shia and Maronite Christian municipality, in the Dahieh suburbs, south of Beirut, Lebanon. It is part of the Baabda District. Once an agricultural village, Haret Hreik lost its rural identity due to ...
Hazmieh
Hazmieh (also Romanized as Hazmiyé, Hazmie, Hasmiyeh, Al Ḩāzimīyah, and El Hâzmîyé) is a town in Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, and a suburb of Beirut, part of Greater Beirut.
Geography
Hazmieh covers an area of 2.73 square kilom ...
Chouf District
Chouf (also spelled Shouf, Shuf or Chuf, in ''Jabal ash-Shouf''; french: La Montagne du Chouf) is a historic region of Lebanon, as well as an administrative district in the governorate (muhafazat) of Mount Lebanon.
Geography
Located south-east o ...
Amatour
Ammatour ( ar, عمّاطور) is a town and municipality in the Shouf (Al-Shouf) District in Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. It lies 57 km southeast of Beirut, at an elevation of between 800 and 1,050 meters above sea level. The name "A ...
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Ammik
Aammiq is a village in the Western Beqaa District in Lebanon. It is also the name of an archaeological site. Archaeology
Aamiq or Aammiq II is an archaeological site southwest of Zahle in the Aammiq Wetland, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon.
It was first ...
Baakline
Baakleen or Baakline ( ar, بعقلين) is a major Druze town located in Mount Lebanon, Chouf District, 45 kilometers southeast of Beirut. Altitude 850 – 920 meters high, population is 30,000, area 14 square km, number of homes 2,870. Borderi ...
Barja
Barja ( ar, برجا, also known as Barja al-Chouf) is a town and municipality in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. Barja is situated near the Mediterranean coast, 34 kilometers south of Beirut and at the midway poi ...
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Barouk
Barouk ( ar, باروك) is a village in the Chouf District of Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. Barouk is located 52 kilometers southeast of Beirut. Its average elevation is 1000 to 1200 meters above sea level and its total land area consists ...
Beiteddine
Beit ed-Dine ( ar, بيت الدين), also known as Btaddine ( ar, بتدين) is a small town and the administrative capital of the Chouf District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. The town is located 45 kilometers southeast of B ...
Bireh
Al-Bireh, al-Birah, or el-Bira ( ar, البيرة; also known historically as Castrum Mahomeria, Magna Mahomeria, Mahomeria Major, Birra, or Beirothah) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian city in the central West Bank, north of Jerusalem. It i ...
Damour
Damour ( ar, الدامور) is a Lebanese Christian town that is south of Beirut. The name of the town is derived from the name of the Phoenician god Damoros who symbolized immortality ( in Arabic). Damour also remained the capital of Mount ...
Deir el Kamar
Deir al-Qamar ( ar, دَيْر الْقَمَر, lit=Monastery of the moon, translit=Dayr al-qamar), is a city south-east of Beirut in south-central Lebanon. It is located five kilometres outside of Beiteddine in the Chouf District of the Mount Le ...
Jahlieh
Jahlieh ( ar, جاهلية) is a village in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon, located southeast of Beirut with an altitude ranging between above sea level and a total land area of . Jahlieh is bordered by village ...
Jiyeh
Jieh (or Jiyé, Jiyeh, الجية) is a seaside town in Lebanon with an estimated population of 5000, 23 km south of Beirut, in the Chouf district via a 20-minute drive along the Beirut to Sidon highway south of the capital. In Phoenician tim ...
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Joun
Joun (also Joon, Djoun in Phoenician, ar, جون) is a Lebanese village sitting on seven hills in the Chouf ( ar, قضاء الشوف) district of Mount Lebanon at a distance of 13 kilometers from the city of Sidon in Lebanon. Joun means "the co ...
Naameh
Na'ameh ( ar, الناعمة), or Haret en Naameh ( ar, حارة الناعمة, links=no), is a Lebanese coastal town located in the Chouf District, an administrative division of the Mount Lebanon Governorate. Naameh was the site of protests ...
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Niha Chouf
Niha ( ar, نيحا ) is a town in the Chouf which belongs to Mount Lebanon of Lebanon.
The town is 44 miles from Beirut and it has about 3,750 hectares; there are 6,500 inhabitants of Druze and Christian. However, there are only two public schools ...
Zaarourieh
Zaarouriye (in Arabic : زعرورية), also written Zaarourieh, is a town in the mountains of Chouf District in the Mont-Liban state of Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () ...
Matn District
Matn ( ar, قضاء المتن, '), sometimes spelled Metn (or preceded by the article El, as in El Matn), is a district (''qadaa'') in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The district capital is Jd ...
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Ain el Safssaf
Ain el Safssaf ( ar, عين الصفصاف translit. ʿayn al-ṣafṣaf) (also Ain es-Sofsaf) is a village in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.
Overview
Etymology
Geography
Ain el Safssaf is to the Capital (Bei ...
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Mar Michael Bnabil
Mar, mar or MAR may refer to:
Culture
* Mar or Mor, an honorific in Syriac
* Earl of Mar, an earldom in Scotland
* MAA (singer) (born 1986), Japanese
* Marathi language, by ISO 639-2 language code
* March, as an abbreviation for the third month ...
Beit Mery
Beit Mery ( ar, بيت مري ; also Beit Mer, Beir Meri) is a Lebanese town overlooking the capital Beirut. The town has been a summer mountain resort since the times of the Phoenicians and later the Romans. The name derives from Aramaic and me ...
Antelias
Antelias ( ar, أنطلياس) is a city in Lebanon in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate. It is located around 5 km to the north of Beirut.
Etymology
The name is originally Greek, ἀντήλιος – from ἀντί(ant ...
Baabdat
Baabdat ( ar, بعبدات) is a town located in the Matn District of Mount Lebanon, 22 km from Beirut at an altitude ranging between 600 and 1100 meters above sea level. The lush pine forests that surround the town make it a very popular su ...
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Baskinta
Baskinta ( ar, بسكنتا) is a Lebanon, Lebanese village situated at an altitude ranging from 1250 metres above sea level and climbs up to approximately 1800 meters of height at Qanat Bakish, making it one of the highest villages of Lebanon. It ...
Bikfaya
Bikfaya ( ar, بكفيا, also spelled Bickfaya, Beckfayya, or Bekfaya) is a town in the Matn District region of Mount Lebanon. Its stone houses with red-tiled roofs resting amidst pine and oak forests make Bikfaya one of the most sought-after sub ...
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Mhaydseh
Mhaydseh, (محيدثة) Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (sometimes pronounced plainly as "Al Mhaydseh","Muhaydhi") () is a town in the south-eastern portion of the Bekaa, a governorate of the Republic of Lebanon. Mhaydseh is part of the Rashaya District. ...
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Bourj Hammoud
Bourj Hammoud (also spelled Burj Hammud; ar, بُرْجُ حَمُّودٍ; hy, Պուրճ Համուտ) is a town and municipality in Lebanon located north-east of the capital Beirut, in the Matn District, and is part of Greater Beirut. The to ...
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Broummana
Brummana ( ar, برمانا) is a town in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. It is located east of Beirut, overlooking the capital and the Mediterranean. Brummana has long been a summer destination for visitors and loc ...
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Bsalim
Bsalim ( ar, بصاليم) is a village in the Matn District in Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. The population is almost exclusively Christian. Bsalim's municipality also contains two small districts which are found around Bsalim, and they ...
Bteghrine
Bteghrine ( ar, بتغرين, also spelled Bteghrin and Btighrin) is a municipality in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon.
Etymology
The exact origin of the town name ''Bteghrine'' is unknown, but possibilities inclu ...
Dbayeh
Dbayeh ( ar, ضبية) is a city in Lebanon located on the Mediterranean Sea in the Matn District, Mount Lebanon, between Beirut and Jounieh. The majority of the population is Christian, apart from some Gulf Arab Muslims who live there during th ...
Aoukar
Aoukar or Erg Aoukar () is a geological depression area of south eastern Mauritania. It is located between Kiffa and Néma, south of the Tagant Plateau.
The Aoukar basin is a dry natural region of sand dunes and salt pans fringed by escarpments o ...
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Dekwaneh
Dekwaneh ( ar, دكوانة translit. Dikwene) (also Dekweneh) is a suburb north of Beirut in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. The population is predominantly Maronite Christian. Tel al-Zaatar, an UNRWA administered ...
Dik El Mehdi
Dik El Mehdi ( ar, ديك المحدي) is a village, at 325 meters elevation, in the Matn District governorate of Mount Lebanon Governorate, Mount Lebanon.
Jal el Dib
Jal El Dib or Jal Ed Dib ( ar, جل الدّيب) is a Lebanese city in the kaza of Matn District, Matn in the Mount Lebanon Governorate11 kilometers north of the capital city of Beirut.
History
Jal el Dib was originally a small village that gr ...
Jdeideh
Jdeideh ( ar, جديدة المتن translit. al-Judaydat), also Jdayde, Jdaideh and Jdeidet el-Matn, is a coastal municipality and the administrative capital of the Matn District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate.
Jdeideh has an area of approxim ...
Kfarakab
Kafarakab ( ar, كفرعقاب) (also spelled Kfarakab or Kfar Akab and pronounced "Kfara-ab" in Arabic) is the francophone spelling of the name of a village in the mountains of Lebanon. In Arabic, it means the home (Kfar: كفر) of the hawk (Ak ...
Mkalles
Mkalles ( ar, المكلس translit. al-Mkalles) is a town in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republ ...
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Daychounieh
Daychounieh ( ar, الديشونية translit. al-Dayšūniyat) (also Al-Daychounieh) is a village in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. Daychounieh is administered by Mansourieh municipality.
Overview
Daychouni ...
Mazraat Yachouh
Mazraat Yachouh ( ar, مزرعة يشوع, french: Municipalité de Mazraat Yachoua), also spelled Mazraat Yachouaa, is a municipality in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, situated approximately 16km east of Beirut. In ...
Rabieh
Rabieh () is a suburban area on the northern edge of Greater Beirut, Lebanon, about 13 kilometers driving distance from Beirut. It is located in the foothills of Mount Lebanon, on the road to Bikfaya. Rabieh saw its population increase sharply in ...
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Roumieh
Roumieh is a village north-east of Beirut in Lebanon. Surrounded by pine-forested hills, Roumieh is a 10- or 15-minute drive from the coast. Roumieh is known as a pleasant, picturesque small mountain town with many gardens.
Agriculture
In addi ...
Sin el Fil
Sin el-Fil ( ar, سنّ الفيل / ALA-LC: ''Sinn al-Fīl'') is a suburb east of Beirut in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.
Overview
Etymology
The name literally means 'ivory': "tooth" (''sinn'') of "the elephant ...
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Zalka
Zalka or Zalqa ( ar, زلقا), part of Zalka - Amaret Chalhoubis a suburban area located in the northern part of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon. It is a residential and commercial district that is known for its bustling shopping streets, rest ...
Bint Jbeil District
The Bint Jbeil District is a district in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Bint Jbeil.
Villages
The following 36 municipalities are all located in the Bint Jbeil District:
* Aynata
* Aayta Ech Chaab
* Aayta Ej ...
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Ain Ebel
ʿAin Ebel ( ar, عين إبل; Syriac: ), the ancient 'En Bol, is a village located in the Lebanese Upper Galilee in the Caza of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatiye Governorate in Lebanon.
Etymology
Historian Taissier Khalaf writes that the name of th ...
Aytaroun
Aitaroun (or Aytaroun; ar, عيترون) is a Lebanese village located in the caza of Bint-Jbeil at 33.1156° North, 35.4722° East. It is on the northern border of Israel and 125 km from Beirut.
The village's name origin is Itruma, whi ...
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Beit Lif
Bayt Lif ( ar, بيت ليف) is a village in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon.
Name
According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the house of lif" (palm-fibre).
History
In 1852, Edward Robinson noted that the year before, a quanti ...
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Beit Yahoun
Beit Yahoun ( ar, بيت ياحون) is a village in Lebanon located near Bint Jbeil, in the Nabatiye Governorate. Beit Yahoun is 117 km from Beirut. It is 950 meters above sea level and covers an area of 485 hectares. History
Visiting in 18 ...
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Bint Jbeil
Bint Jbeil () is the second largest town in the Nabatiye Governorate in Southern Lebanon.
The town has an estimated population of 30,000. Its exact population is unknown, because Lebanon has not conducted a population census since 1932.
Histo ...
Froun
Froun ( ar, فرون) is a village in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon. Name
According to E. H. Palmer, the name ''Furûn'' comes from "the ovens" or "reservoirs". History
In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) ...
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Ghandouriyeh
Ghandouriyeh ( ar, غندورية) is a Lebanese municipality located in the Bint Jbeil District, south of Froun. It was formerly known as ''Aidib''. Name
In the 1800s, the village was called Aidib, and E. H. Palmer wrote in 1881 that t ...
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Hanine
Hanine ( ar, حانين) is a Lebanese municipality located in the Bint Jbeil District.
Name
E. H. Palmer wrote that the name Hanine came from a personal name. However, the name has Semitic - Arabic roots, which means "Mercy".
History
In 1875, ...
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Hariss
Hariss (or Haris) ( ar, حاريص) is a village, in the region of South Lebanon.
Name
According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "guarded".
History
'Here there appear to be no vestiges of ancient constructions, except a circular cistern
cut in ...
Khirbet Selm
Kherbet Selm ( ar, خربة سلم) is a village in southern Lebanon.
The municipality of Khirbet Selm is located in the Kaza of Bent Jbayl, one of the eight mohafazats (governorates) of Lebanon. Khirbet Selm is 104 kilometers (64.6256 mi) ...
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Kounine
Kunin ( ar, كونين) is a Lebanese municipality located in Bint Jbeil District, south-east of Tebnine. Name
E. H. Palmer wrote that the name ''Kunin'' came from a personal name. History
In 1875, Victor Guérin gives the population of ...
Ramyah
Ramyah ( ar, رامية) is a village in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon.
Name
According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, ''Ramia'' comes from a personal name.
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, ''Ramiya'', i ...
Tebnine
Tebnine ( ar, تبنين ''Tibnīn'', also Romanized ''Tibnine'') is a Lebanese town spread across several hills (ranging in altitude from 700m to 800m (2,275 ft to 2,600 ft) above sea level) located about east of Tyre (Lebanon), i ...
Yaroun
Yaroun (also spelled Yarun; ar, يارون)From personal name, according to Palmer, 1881, p104"perhaps the Iron of Josh. xix 38" is a Lebanese village located in the Caza of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatieh Governorate in Lebanon.
Geography
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Yater
Yater (Arabic: ياطر) is a Lebanese municipality located in Bint Jbeil District. It is 112 kilometers away from Beirut.
E. H. Palmer wrote that the name Yater came from a personal name.
History
The village once marked the northernmost extent ...
Hasbaya District
The Hasbaya District is a district in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon. It lies in the southeast, bordering Syria. The capital of the district is Hasbaya
Hasbeya or Hasbeiya ( ar, حاصبيا) is a town in Lebanon, situated at the foot of Mo ...
Hasbaya
Hasbeya or Hasbeiya ( ar, حاصبيا) is a town in Lebanon, situated at the foot of Mount Hermon, overlooking a deep amphitheatre from which a brook flows to the Hasbani. In 1911, the population was about 5000.
Hasbaya is the capital of the Wadi ...
Kawkaba
Kawkaba (), known to the Crusaders as Coquebel, was a Palestinian Arab village that was occupied by Israel during Operation Yoav during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and depopulated.
Location
The village was situated on an uneven stretch of red-brow ...
Kfeir
Kfeir ( ar, الكفير) is a small village nestled 900 m above sea level, in Hasbaiya District (Qada'a), an administrative division of Nabatiyeh Governorate (Mohafazah) along the steep slopes of the top of the Jebel Sheikh in Lebanon.
The vil ...
Blida
Blida ( ar, البليدة; Berber languages, Tamazight: Leblida) is a city in Algeria. It is the capital of Blida Province, and it is located about 45 km south-west of Algiers, the national capital. The name ''Blida'', i.e. ''bulaydah'' ...
Houla
The Houla Region or Houla Plain ( ar, الحولة ''Al-Ḥūla'') is an area consisting of three villages in the Homs Governorate of central Syria, northwest of the city of Homs. The biggest village in the Houla region had 20,041 inhabitants in ...
Khiam
Khiam ( ar, الخيام; sometimes spelled Khiyam) is a large town in the Nabatieh Governorate of Southern Lebanon.
Location
Khiam is situated approximately south from the capital city of Beirut and south-east from the city of Nabatieh. The bo ...
Markaba
Markaba ( ar, مركبا) is an village located at Marjayoun municipality at Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon. It is south of Raabatt Tallame, east of Banni Hayyan and northeast of Tallussah, South Lebanon.
Name Markaba or Markabah also in Arabic ...
Rab Thalathine
Rab El Thalathine (رب الثلاثين) is a village in the Marjeyoun District in southern Lebanon.
Name
According to E. H. Palmer, the name ''Rubb Thelâthin'' comes from ''rubb'' meaning syrup; and ''thelâthin'' meaning thirty.
History
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Taybeh
Taybeh ( ar, الطيبة) is a Christian Palestinian village in the West Bank, 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) northeast of JerusalemWazzany
Nabatieh District
The Nabatieh District is a district in the Nabatieh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Nabatieh.
Villages
* Qaaqaait Al Jisr
* Ansar
* Aedsheet
*Ain Qana
* Ain Boswar
* Aldawair
* Arab Saleem
* Chouqin
* Der Al Zahrani
*Doue ...
Arnoun
Arnoun ( ar, ارنون, Syriac-Aramaic: ܐܪܢܘܢ) is a majority Lebanese Shia village south-east of Nabatiyeh, in Nabatiyeh Governorate, southern Lebanon. The village is located approximately from the Israeli border. The village is approx ...
Deir el Zahrani
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 envi ...
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Doueir
Doueir (Arabic: دوير, ''ad-Duwayr''), or Dweir, is a village of 7,500 inhabitants in Southern Lebanon near Nabatieh, and north of the Litani River. It is located directly next to the village of Charkiyeh. Although Doueir is considered a big ...
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Ebba
Ebba is a feminine given name, the feminine version of Ebbe, which is a diminutive form of the Germanic name Eberhard or Everhard, meaning " strong." Alternately, it may be a form of an Old English name Æbbe, of unknown derivation, which was the ...
Jarjouh
Jarjouh is a village in Lebanon, located in the Nabatieh District, Nabatieh Governorate.
between the villages of Houmin Al Fawqa, Arabsalim, Jbaa, Ain Bouswar, Alwayizeh, Soujod, Ain Qana. The village sits on the shoulder of Mleeta hills, with Oa ...
Jebchit
Jebchit ( ar, جبشيت) is a village in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon located north of the Litani River.
History
In 1596, it was named as a village, ''Jibsid'', in the Ottoman empire, Ottoman ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of S ...
Kfarfila
Kfar Fila ( ar, كفرفيلا), is a town in the Nabatieh Governorate, ( ar, links=no, النبطية) al-Nabatiya, or Nabatiye southern Lebanon.
It is one of the 243 towns of Nabatieh Governorate, situated at the northern region of this distric ...
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Kfarremane
Kfar Remen ( ar, كفر رمان) is a city in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon; located north east of Nabatieh.
History Ottoman era
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, ''Kfar Rumana'', in the Ottoman ''na ...
Zefta
Zefta ( ar, زفتى , Coptic: ⲍⲉⲃⲉⲑⲉ ''Zevethe'Emile Amélineau.'' La géographie de l’Egypte à l'époque copte. — Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1893. — 690 p) is an Egyptian town in the Nile delta, within the Gharbia g ...
North Lebanon Governorate
North Governorate ( ar, الشمال, ') (Lebanese pr. ''eš šmél'') (French: Gouvernorat du Liban-Nord) is one of the governorates of Lebanon. Its capital is Tripoli. Ramzi Nohra has been its governor since May 2, 2014. The population of North ...
Batroun District
Batroun District ( ar, البترون) is a district (''qadaa'') in the North Governorate, Lebanon, south of Tripoli. The capital is Batroun.
Cities and towns
* Abdelleh
* Abrine
* Assia
*Batroun
* Basbina
*Bchaaleh
*Beit Chlala
* Beit Kassab
* ...
Batroun
Batroun ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرُون '; Syriac script: ܒܬܪܘܢ ') is a coastal city in northern Lebanon and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is the capital city of Batroun District.
Etymology
The name ''Batr ...
Chekka
Chekka is coastal town located in North Lebanon. It is located north of Râs ach-Chaq’a’ and Herri beaches, or Theoprosopon of classical times and south of the ancient Phoenician port of Enfeh and the city of Tripoli. The origin of the word ...
Hamat
Hamat is a village in Lebanon. It is located 287 meters atop the historic cape of Theoprosopon. It is home to the historic shrine and monastery of Our Lady of Nourieh. The village is also home to Saint Elias Church, which overlooks the Jawz ...
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Hardine
Hardîne ( ar, حردين), sometimes written Ḩardīn, is a village in Batroun District, North Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. Notable structures include the Temple of Mercury, severely damaged by an earthquake, and several Christian churches an ...
Kfarabida
Kfar Abida, (sometimes spelled Kfar Aabida or Kfaraabida) is a village located south of Batroun in the Batroun District of the North Governorate in Lebanon. On the coast, in the southwest of the town, lies an archaeological tell, Tell Fadous. ...
Tannourine
Tannourine ( ar, تنورين, also Tannoureen, Tannorine) is a Lebanese town located in the Batroun District, part of the Governorate of North Lebanon, 80 km from the capital Beirut. Tannourine is formed by a cluster of mountain settlements l ...
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Zan
Zan or ZAN, may refer to:
Geography
* Zhan, Kurdistan, Iran, also known as Zān
* Zhan, Lorestan, Iran, also known as Žān
* Zan, Tehran, a village in Tehran Province, Iran
Ethnicity and language
* Zans, the Zan People, people who speak the ...
Becharre
Bsharri ( ar, بشرّي ''Bšarrī''; syr, ܒܫܪܝ; also Romanized ''Becharre'', ''Bcharre'', ''Bsharre'', (''Bcharre El Arez بشرّي الارز'') is a town at an altitude of about to . It is located in the Bsharri District of the Nor ...
Hasroun
Hasroun (also Hasrun or Hasroon, Arabic: حصرون ) is a village located in the Bsharri District in the North Governorate of Lebanon. It is situated in the Valley of Qadisha, overlooking the southern branch of this valley, the Qannoubine Valle ...
Koura District
Koura District ( ar, ٱلْكُورَة, from gr, χώρα, lit=country) is a district in the North Governorate, Lebanon.
Koura is one of the 26 districts of Lebanon, particularly known for its olive tree cultivation and olive oil production ...
Amioun
Amioun ( ar, أميون, translit=Amyūn, gr, Αμιούν) is the capital of the predominantly Greek Orthodox Koura District (i.e. χώρα, "country" in Greek) in the north of Lebanon.
Etymology
The town of Amioun derives its name from the Ar ...
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Anfeh
Enfeh ( ar, انفه), or Enfe, Anfeh, Anfe, is a town in the Koura district of the North Governorate of Lebanon at Latitude 34°21'0"N and Longitude 35°44'0"E. Enfeh borders the towns of Chekka, Al-Qalamoun, Barghoun and Zakroun. It i ...
Bednayel
Bednayel ( ar, بدنايل (بعلبك)) is a local authority in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''Bednayas population as being predominantly Metawileh
Lebanese Shia Musl ...
Beit el Fokss
Beit El Faqs ( ar, بيت الفقس ) is a Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunni Muslim Lebanese village located in the Miniyeh-Danniyeh District in the region of North Lebanon.
References
External links Beit El Faqs Localibanwww.beitelfaks.com
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:Aaytit
:Abbassieh
:Ain Baal
:Alma el Chaab
:Arzoun
:Baflay
:Barich
:Batoulieh
:Bayyad
:Bazourieh
:Bedyass
:Borj el Chamali
:Borj Rahal
:Bourghlieh
:Boustane
:Chameh, Tyre, Chameh
:Chehabie
:Chehour
:Chihine
:Debaal
:Deir Amess
:Deir Kanoun – Ras el Ain
:Deir Kanoun Naher
:Derdghaya
:Halloussieh
:Hanawey
:Henniye
:Hmayri
:Jbal el Botm
:Jebbine
:Jwaya
:Qana, Kana
:Kolayleh
:Maarake
:Maaroub
:Mahroune
:Majadel
:Majdalzoun
:Mansouri, Lebanon, Mansouri
:Marwahine
:Mazraat Mechref
:Nakoura
:Ramadiye
:Rechknanay
:Selaa
:Siddikine
:Srifa
:Tayr Debba
:Tayr Falsay
:Tayr Harfa
:Toura, Lebanon, Toura
:Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre
:Yanouh, Tyre, Yanouh
:Yarine
:Zebkine
See also
* List of cities and towns in Lebanon
* Governorates of Lebanon
* Districts of Lebanon
* Subdivisions of Lebanon
{{Articles on third-level administrative divisions of countries
Lists of subdivisions of Lebanon, Municipalities