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22 unusual facts about lebanon


Al-Ghassaniyah

:For the town in Lebanon, see Ghassanieh, Lebanon

Armand Louis de Gontaut

Lauzun's Legion left their winter quarters in Lebanon, Connecticut on 9 June 1781 and marched south through Connecticut known as the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route.

Baal-Eser II

Baal-Eser II (846–841 BC), also known as Balbazer II and Ba'l-mazzer I, was a king of Tyre, the son of Ithobaal I.

Bassam Al-Soukaria

Bassam Al-Soukaria is considered one of the most powerful army commanders to rule Mount Lebanon army in the seventeenth century.

Bassam Al-Soukaria (May 14, 1580–April 13, 1667) (Arabic: بسام السكرية) was a Lebanese army commander in chief, son of Prince Nazim el Maany from the Maan Druze dynasty.

Bobby Gerhart

Bobby Gerhart (born July 21, 1958, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania) is a driver on the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards.

Clementine literature

(R adds Dora and Ptolemais (Akko), omitting Byblos, 4.1.) Peter's discourses to the multitude at Tripolis are detailed in H (books 8–11), and in R (three days only, 4–6), with considerable differences.

Connecticut's 8th assembly district

Prior to 2001, the district also contained part of Lebanon but contained only part of Coventry.

Eesh Safari

It is the orange team in Eesh Safari 1, and was led by the participant Yasmin from Lebanon.

Frank Chelf

He graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee in 1931 and was admitted to the bar in 1931 and commenced practice in Lebanon, Kentucky.

Halim El Roumi

Halim El Roumi (in Arabic حليم الرومي) (c. 1919 – 1983), born Hanna Baradhy (ﺣﻨﺎ ﺑﺭﺍﺩﻋي), was a Lebanese musician, composer, singer and actor.

Haratch

After the migration of Armenians from the area of Musa Dagh (incorporated to Turkey in 1938) to Lebanon, who settled in the area of Anjar, Lebanon, in 1940, a contribution campaign was organized among Armenians living in France by the initiative and zealous efforts of editor Schavarch Missakian.

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Tripoli City

Voting to elect five members of the Lebanese parliament took place in Tripoli City in 1968, part of the national general election of that year (the rural areas of Tripoli District had a separate constituency).

Lebanon, Indiana

The county courthouse of Lebanon is notable for its single-piece vertical Ionic order limestone columns.

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Lebanon was chartered as a town by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, one of 16 along the Connecticut River.

Tele Atlas, a leading worldwide developer of mapping databases, has its North American headquarters in Lebanon.

Phoenicia under Hellenistic rule

However, when Alexander tried to offer a sacrifice to Melqart, Tyre's god, the city resisted.

Salim Ali Salam

and a second time in 1922, when he was sent into exile to the village of Douma in northern Lebanon for 5 months.

Tyrian shekel

Tyrian shekels (Tyrian tetradrachmas) were coins of Tyre, which in the Roman Empire took on an unusual role as the medium of payment for the Temple tax in Jerusalem, and subsequently gained notoriety as a likely mode of payment for Judas Iscariot.

Tyrus

Tyre, Lebanon or Tyrus, the Latin name of the ancient Phoenician city

Western University of Health Sciences

In 2011, Western University of Health Sciences opened a new medical school campus in Lebanon, Oregon called the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest.

Where Do We Go Now?

The film was shot in Taybeh a village near Baalbek because the town contains a Church neighboring a mosque, other towns were used during the shooting like Meshmesh, Douma, and Jeita's Church Al-Saydeh.


Akkari

Nazem Akkari, Lebanese politician and Prime Minister of Lebanon

Aleppo Railway Station

The Turks, who sided with Germany and the Central Powers, decided to recover the infrastructure south of Aleppo to the Lebanon in 1917.

Alexander, Margrave of Meissen

Prince Alexander of Saxe-Gessaphe (German: Alexander Prinz von Sachsen-Gessaphe Polish: Aleksander książę Saskogessapski; born Alexander de Afif 12 February 1954), is the adopted heir of Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, and a businessman with Lebanese, Mexican and German roots.

Alfred Werner Maurer

In 1973, he participated as a researcher at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken under the direction of Rolf Hachmann in the excavations at Tell Kamid al lawz (or Kamid el-Loz) (Kumidi) in Lebanon part.

Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur

and to have been instrumental in the killing of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, the American Chief of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization's (UNTSO) observer group in Lebanon who was taken hostage on 17 February 1988 by Lebanese pro-Iranian Shia radicals.

Almerigo Grilz

He witnessed all the conflicts from mid 70’s, from the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan to the Israeli’s operation in Lebanon; the conflicts between Druses and Christian Maronites; and the Myanmar-Thailand border war between Keren minority and Myanmar regulars.

Armenia Fund

All-Armenian Fund through its 25 affiliate organizations has presence in 22 countries around the world: United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Great Britain, France, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, and Australia.

Bashir Shihab II

Today, the Chehabs are still one of the prominent families in Lebanon and his direct descendants are currently residing in Turkey, France and U.K. known as Paksoy family.

Battle of Maroun al-Ras

The Battle of Maroun al-Ras was a battle of the 2006 Lebanon War that took place in Maroun ar-Ras, a small village in southern Lebanon on the border with Israel, and Jall ad-Dayr, a nearby Hizbullah stronghold.

Boo.com

The biggest loser among boo.com's investors was Omnia, a fund backed by members of Lebanon's wealthy Hariri family, which put nearly £20 million into the company.

Brigitte Yaghi

She was raised in Hadath, Lebanon, where by age 14 she was participating in vocal fiestas and private shows.

Bsharri

Bsharri is the town of the only remaining (preserved) Original Cedars of Lebanon (Cedrus libani), and is the birthplace of the famous poet, painter and sculptor Khalil Gibran who now has a museum in the town to honor him.

Canaanean blade

Found on land of the Lebanese Evangelical School for Girls in the Patriarchate area of Beirut, Lebanon.

Chris Walley

He taught at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon from 1980–84, where he met his wife and where his two sons John and Mark were born.

Communist Action Organization in Lebanon

Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process,no that was no Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 67.

Congregation of Maronite Lebanese Missionaries

The Congregation of Maronite Lebanese Missionaries (known also as Kreimist or Krayme) was founded at the monastery of Kreim - Ghosta (Mountain of Lebanon), in the year 1865.

Dominic Waghorn

He worked there for almost five years, during which time he covered the wars in Iraq, the aftermath of the War in Lebanon, and the Arab Spring.

Fatah al-Islam

On December 7, 2006 Le Monde reported that a top UN official had been informed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, of a plot by Fatah al-Islam to assassinate 36 anti-Syrian figures in Lebanon.

The PLO representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki also met with official bodies in Lebanon to officially inform them that the group is made up of "extremists" and is not linked with Palestinian agenda.

Flag of Vatican City

The white has also been reported in relation with the white mountains of Lebanon and of the biblical city of MiehWMieh according to the Lebanese Historian Anis Freiha.

Frumentius

According to the 4th-century historian Rufinus (x.9), who cites Frumentius' brother Edesius as his authority, as children (ca. 316) Frumentius and Edesius accompanied their uncle Meropius from their birthplace of Tyre (in present-day Lebanon) on a voyage to Ethiopia.

Julie Glass

Glass took another break from skating in 2002, during which time she and her husband ran a roller rink and drive-through coffee shop in Lebanon, Oregon.

Karimeh Abbud

It is known that her father died in June 1949 in his father's hometown of Khiam in southern Lebanon.

Kesab

By the efforts of the Armenian community of Paris, Cardinal Krikor Bedros Aghajanian and the Papal representative to Syria and Lebanon Remi Leprert, many parts of Kesab inhabited by Armenians were separated from Turkey and placed within the Syrian boundaries.

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Koura District

Voting to elect two members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Koura District (a rural area in northern Lebanon) in 1968, part of the national general election of that year.

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Zgharta District

Voting to elect three members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Zgharta District in northern Lebanon in 1968, part of the national general election of that year.

Lebanese prisoners in Israel

Said to have been arrested by the Israeli forces in 1984 on Bater crossing in Jezzine (Lebanon) and taken to the Aber center.

Lebanon Airport

Tallman Airport, a private use airport in Lebanon, Oregon, United States (FAA: 88OR)

Lebanon College

In 1997, Donald Wenz was named the college's tenth president, and launched a "Campaign for Renewal" to purchase and renovate the old Woolworth's building in downtown Lebanon.

Lebanon in the Eurovision Song Contest

The country's broadcasting organization, Télé Liban, was set to make the country's debut at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Quand tout s'enfuit" performed by Aline Lahoud, but withdrew due to Lebanon's laws barring the broadcast of Israeli content.

Little Syria, Manhattan

The overwhelming majority of the residents were Arabic-speaking Christians, Melkite and Maronite immigrants from present-day Syria and Lebanon who settled in the area in the late 19th century, escaping religious persecution and poverty in their homelands – which were then under control of the Ottoman Empire – and answering the call of American missionaries to escape their difficulties by traveling to New York City.

Megalithic architectural elements

The term also describes the groups of three stones in the Hunebed tombs of the Netherlands and the three massive stones forming part of the wall of the Roman Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon.

Michel Temer

In a TV interview for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (May 8, 2010), Temer indicated that his family originates from the town of Btaaboura in Koura District, neighboring the city of Tripoli in Northern Lebanon.

Middle Eastern Empires

The city's status as residence of the Eastern Roman Emperor made it into the premier city in all of the Eastern Roman colonies in the Balkans, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt, and part of present day Libya.

Miniara

Miniara (Arabic: منياره) (also transliterated Minyara) is a village in the District of Akkar, North Lebanon, 9 kilometers east of the Mediterranean Sea, and 3 kilometers south of Halba.

Mounira Solh

Mounira Solh hails from a prominent family which gave Lebanon four prime ministers, Riad Solh, Sami Solh, Takieddine Solh and Rachid Solh.

Myriam Klink

In the aftermath of the Alexa winter storm of December 2013, Myriam announced that she will pose for a nude photoshoot in the snow as a statement of solidarity with the refugees of the Syrian conflict living in makeshift camps in Lebanon.

Notre Dame University – Louaize

NDU is currently ranked 5th in Lebanon according to its presence on the Web by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

Raymond Eddé

Eddé was born in Alexandria, Egypt, where his father, a native of the town of Edde in the Jbeil District and an opponent of Ottoman control of Lebanon, had taken refuge after being sentenced to death for subversion.

Spying on the United Nations

General Alain Pellegrini, former commander of UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, claimed that Israel regularly spies on the peacekeeping mission.

Stuart A. Hancox

Hancox won the University of Arkansas Press Award for his translation of Improvisations on a Missing String by the Lebanese writer Nazik Saba Yared.

Syrian Democratic People's Party

Party leader Faeq al-Mir was arrested in December 2006 after being taped by Syrian intelligence agents calling Lebanese politician Elias Atallah to offer condolences for the death of Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon's Minister of Industry.

The School of Ecclesiastic Music

The School of Ecclesiastic Music (SEM) is a school of Byzantine music in Matn, Lebanon.

U.S.–Middle East Free Trade Area

Complications could still exist in getting trade with Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority given continuous Israeli control of disputed territories, and the actions of militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Vahe Vahian

Vahe-Vahian (Armenian: Վահէ-Վահեան), born Sarkis Abdalian (22 December 1908, Gürün Turkey, died in 1998, Beirut, Lebanon), was an Armenian poet, writer, editor, pedagogue and orator.

Wadi al-Qarn – Burqush Important Bird Area

It lies at an altitude of 1,175 – 1,500 m next to the village of Burqush in the Anti-Lebanon mountains, near Mount Hermon and close to the border with Lebanon.

William McKendree

In 1830, he lent his support to the Lebanon Seminary, Lebanon, Illinois.