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    The Temples of the Beqaa Valley are a number of shrines and Roman temples that are dispersed around the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. The most important and...
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    The Beqaa Valley (Arabic: وادي البقاع, Wādī l-Biqā‘, Lebanese [bʔaːʕ]), also transliterated as Bekaa, Biqâ, and Becaa and known in classical antiquity...
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    are a group of small temples and shrines, some with substantial remains. Some are in modern Syria and Israel. Temples of the Beqaa Valley, including Baalbek...
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    "place of great abundance". George Taylor divided up the Temples of Lebanon into three groups, one group of Temples of the Beqaa Valley lies north of the road...
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  • Kafr Zabad (category Ancient Roman temples)
    meters of altitude. It is famous because of its Roman temples. George F. Taylor classed the temples in a group of Temples of the Beqaa Valley. They are...
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    The Temple of Bacchus is part of the Baalbek archaeological site, in Beqaa Valley region of Lebanon. The temple complex is considered an outstanding archaeological...
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    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...
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    one group referred to the Temples of the Lebanese coastal plain to Mount Lebanon, another group as Temples of the Beqaa Valley and another area with a...
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    Maronite village in the Baalbek District. An engraving of the qubbat with Duris in the background (c. 1878) Baalbek Temples of the Beqaa Valley Robinson (1856)...
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    with phoenician-greek origins) in the village that are included in a grouping of Roman Temples of the Beqaa Valley. It is said to be dedicated to Venus...
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  • Nahle, Lebanon (category Ancient Roman temples)
    group of Temples of the Beqaa Valley. The temple foundations are made of gigantic blocks of stone, upon which sit the remains of a podium. The podium...
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  • Bakka, Lebanon (category Ancient Roman temples)
    George Taylor divided up the Temples of Lebanon into three groups, one group of Temples of the Beqaa Valley lies north of the road from Beirut to Damascus...
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  • George Francis Taylor (category Year of birth missing)
    temples of Lebanon into three groups; Temples of Mount Hermon, Temples of the Beqaa Valley and Temples of the Lebanese coastal plain. Taylor humbly admitted...
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    Iaat (category Beqaa Valley)
    northwest of Baalbek, in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon. The town is famed for its Corinthian column, the Iaat column. This is a single column of unknown date...
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    Labweh (category Ancient Roman temples)
    the ruins of a Roman temple in the village that are included in a group of Temples of the Beqaa Valley. It was a prostyle type but only one block of the...
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    George F. Taylor classified Qasr el Banat among a group of ancient Roman Temples of the Beqaa Valley. It is suggested to date to Ancient Roman, but it is...
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    close to the Beirut-Damascus road, and lies at the junction of Mount Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley, at a mean elevation of 1,000 m. Established in the 18th...
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    Augusti Pagus (Roman Phoenicia) (category Lebanon in the Roman era)
    ordered the development of this pagus in the central-northern hills of the Beqaa Valley. In the 1st century AD, after the Roman conquest of Phoenicia, the Roman...
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  • Shheem (category Ancient Roman temples)
    Muslims. It is the site of one of many Temples of the Beqaa Valley. In the era of prosperity in the 2nd century AD, the villagers of Shleem decided to...
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  • Saraain El Faouqa (category Beqaa Valley)
    included in a group of Temples of the Beqaa Valley. There are also numerous rock-cut tombs visible nearby. Although the walls of the temple cella have long...
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    a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about 67 km (42 mi) northeast of Beirut. It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate...
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    Hosn Niha (redirect from Hosn of Niha)
    assessment of the site at Hosn Niha Preliminary report 2011-2012": 257–280 – via Anth 3SS instructor Roman Phoenicia Temples of the Beqaa Valley Pagus Augustus...
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    Kamid el-Loz (category Beqaa Valley)
    Sunni Muslim village in the Beqaa Valley. The ancient name of the site is thought to be Kumidi. Tell Kamid el-Loz was the site of major German archaeological...
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    height of 2,695 metres (8,842 ft) in Mount Sannine. The Beqaa valley sits between the Lebanon mountains in the west and the Anti-Lebanon range in the east;...
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    Merwah. Most of the major wineries have their vineyards in the southern Beqaa Valley. Château Ksara remains much the biggest, with 70% of all the country's...
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  • Libbaya (category Populated places in Western Beqaa District)
    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...
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    Coele-Syria (category States and territories established in the 4th century BC)
    Syria') was a region of Syria in classical antiquity. The term originally referred to the "hollow" Beqaa Valley between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon mountain...
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  • Since 1955, people from around the world have gone to the city of Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon to attend the annual festival. Classical music...
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    incident, the writer and Salma began to meet once a month in a small temple far from her home, potentially in the Beqaa Valley. In the fifth year of Salma...
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    1st century in Lebanon (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    into the province of Syria (Tacitus, Annals, xii. 23). In AD 41, at Herod Agrippa's request, his brother Herod was given Chalcis in the Beqaa Valley, with...
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