Taybeh ( ar, (طيبة (بعلبك)) ) is a village in the
Baalbek District in
Baalbek-Hermel Governorate
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.
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 ''el-Taiyibeh'' as a village in the
Baalbek
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 ...
area, whose inhabitants were
Catholic
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.
[Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p]
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In popular culture
The 2011 Lebanese film '' Where Do We Go Now?'' directed by Nadine Labaki
Nadine Labaki ( ar, نادين لبكي ''Nādīn Labikī''; born February 18, 1974) is a Lebanese actress, director and activist. Labaki first came into the spotlight as an actress in the early 2000s. Her film-making career began in 2007 after ...
was partly shot in the village because it features a church next to a mosque, as in the plot of the movie.
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External links
Taybeh
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{{Baalbek District
Populated places in Baalbek District