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Jabal Amel
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Jabal Amil.
Jabal Amil (Arabic: جبل عامل, romanized: Jabal ʿĀmil; also spelled Jabal Amel and historically known as Jabal Amila) is a cultural and geographic region in Southern Lebanon largely associated with its long-established, predominantly Twelver Shia Muslim inhabitants. Its precise boundaries vary, but it is generally defined as the mostly highland region on either side of the Litani River, between the in the west and the Wadi al-Taym, Beqaa and Hula valleys in the east.