Byblos Castle | Lebanon

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Byblos Castle is a Crusader castle in Byblos, Lebanon. The castle was built by the Crusaders in the 12th century from indigenous limestone and the remains of Roman structures. 

Byblos is a UNESCO World Heritage site. 

Tyre ancient ruins | Lebanon

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Tyre is is an ancient Phoenician city located on the southern coast of Lebanon, 83 km south of Beirut.  It was an island in ages past, celebrated for its beauty.

Tyre emerges today from the debris of centuries. Excavations on the site have uncovered remains of the Crusader, Arab, Byzantine and Graeco-Roman cities.

Tyre is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Beirut Harbour in better days | Lebanon

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A massive explosion occurred on Tuesday, August 4 in the vicinity of the Beirut Port Complex, wreaking havoc across the city and killing hundreds of people.

The blast is believed to have originated from a chemical storage warehouse where an estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate got ignited. The material has reportedly been confiscated from a ship years ago and stored there, but without proper safety measures.

My thoughts and prayers are with the Lebanese people.

Sidon Sea Castle | Lebanon

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Sidon, known locally as Saida, is the third-largest city in Lebanon. This ancient Phoenician city has been of great religious, political and commercial value; it is said to be inhabited since 4000 B.C. In AD 1228, the Crusaders built Sidon's Sea Castle as a fortress on a small island connected to the mainland by a narrow 80m long roadway.

Centre historique de Saida is on the tentative list of Unesco world heritage sites. 

The Grand Sérail | Lebanon

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The Grand Serail, also known as the Government Palace, is the headquarters of the Prime Minister of Lebanon. It is situated atop a hill in downtown Beirut a few blocks away from the Lebanese Parliament building.

Flags of the World | Lebanon

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The State of Greater Lebanon was a state declared on 1 September 1920, which became the Lebanese Republic in May 1926, and is the predecessor of modern Lebanon.

The flag of Lebanon was adopted on December 7, 1943, when the country gained independence from France.

Sultan Abdul Hamid Clocktower | Lebanon

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The clocktower was built in 1901-1902 by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid as a gift to the city of Tripoli.

Abdul Hamid II (1842 – 1918) was the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Soap Khan - Tripoli | Lebanon

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Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli is one of a handful of cities in the eastern Mediterranean that was once famed for the production of soap.

The product even lent its name to the area’s historic khans, or caravanserais, since the area’s craftsmen were renowned for their soap, which was composed of oil from the area’s abundant olive trees.

Marie Baz Wax Museum | Lebanon

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Deir al-Qamar, meaning "Monastery of the Moon", is a village in south-central Lebanon.

Here you find the Marie Bez Wax museum. It captures Lebanon’s most significant personalities and historical events and boasts a collection of over seventy wax figures.

Litani River | Lebanon

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The Litani River  is an important water resource in southern Lebanon. The river rises in the fertile Beqaa Valley, west of Baalbek, and empties into the Mediterranean Sea north of Tyre. With a length of over 140 km, the Litani River is the longest river in Lebanon.

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On the right picturing Suleiman Kabalan Frangié (1910-1992). He was the 5th president of Lebanon from 1970 to 1976.

Saint Elie Armenian Cathedral | Lebanon

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There has been an Armenian presence in Lebanon for centuries. Approximately 4% of the Lebanese population is of Armenian descent. Saint Elie Cathedral was the first Armenian Catholic church built in Beirut. The church was destroyed and re-built several times throughout its history.

Cedar at Sunset | Lebanon

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The cedar of Lebanon is a tall evergreen tree which has been prized for its high quality timber, oils and resins for thousands of years. The tree is the national emblem of Lebanon.

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(right) Kamal Fouad Joumblat (born 1917) was a Lebanese politician, a major ally of the Palestine Liberation Organization until his assassination in 1977. 

The Temple of Venus, Baalbek | Lebanon

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The temple of Venus is located in Baalbek, a town in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley. During the period of Roman rule the city was known as Heliopolis. 

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A map of Lebanon

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Lebanon is located in the Middle East and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, Syria and Israel.
Beirut is the capital city and a major port. Tripoli is Lebanon's second largest city. Lebanon is a small country with a varied landscape consisting of beaches, mountains, valleys, forests and woodlands.

 

There are a number of World Heritage sites in Lebanon: the Phoenician cities of Byblos, Baalbek and Tyre, Qadisha Valley, known for its early Christian monasteries, and the Islamic city of Anjar built in the eighth century.

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From a set of stamps celebrating Lebanon’s cultural heritage: Lebanese singer and actress Sabah (1927).

The Arch of Triumph from Tyre, Lebanon

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Tyre is is an ancient Phoenician city located on the southern coast of Lebanon, 83 km south of Beirut.  It was an island in ages past, celebrated for its beauty. Tyre emerges today from the debris of centuries. Excavations on the site have uncovered remains of the Crusader, Arab, Byzantine and Graeco-Roman cities.

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(left) Horsh Ehden is a Nature Reserve located in North Lebanon, it contains a particularly diverse and beautiful remnant forest of the Cedar of Lebanon.

(right) 60 Years of Lions International 1952-2012

Becharre | بْشَرِّيْ‎ a city near the Qadisha Valley in North Lebanon

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Becharre is a town at an altitude of about 1,500 m located in the Qadisha Valley in northern Lebanon. The valley is known as the Holy Valley because of the number of monasteries, churches and hermit caves there.

 

The scenery is really dramatic, with all the townships clinging to the sides of the steep valley and the middle east’s tallest mountain, the snowcapped Cornet El-Saouda, towering overhead.

Becharre is the birthplace of the famous poet, painter and sculptor Khalil Gibran who now has a museum in the town to honor him.

Kfarhelda falls, Lebanon

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Kfarhelda waterfall is located in North-Lebanon, about 80 kilometers from Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. 

Afqa Falls , Lebanon

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Afqa is located in the mountains of Lebanon, about 20 kilometres from the ancient city of Byblos.

The waterfall at Afqa is the source for the River Adonis, known today as Abraham River.

In Greek mythology, Adonis, the god of beauty and desire, was born and died at the foot of the falls in Afqa.

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Rafic Hariri (1944 –  2005) was a business tycoon and the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation in October 2004. Hariri was assassinated on 14 February 2005.

The Al Msaylha Citadel, Lebanon

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The Al Msaylha castle is a fortified place that stands alone on top of a detached rocky spur in the center of the Nahr el-Jaouze river valley. It is the only one of Lebanon's castles to stand at the pinnacle of a sharp peak, like fairy tale castles in story books. 

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Lebanese singer Nouhad Wadi Haddad, known as Fayrouz (1935), the Jewel of Lebanon.

Mansouri Great Mosque, Tripoli, Lebanon

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The Great Mosque of Tripoli was built around the year 1300. The Mansouri Mosque was named after the Mamluk sultan al-Mansur Qalawun, who conquered Tripoli from the Crusaders in 1289.

Mamlūk, also spelled Mameluke, are slave warriors of medieval Islam who overthrew their masters, defeated the Mongols and the Crusaders and established a dynasty that lasted three hundred years.

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Lebanese singer Nouhad Wadi Haddad, known as Fayrouz (1935), the Jewel of Lebanon.