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23 unusual facts about lebanon


Ain Dara

Ain Dara, Lebanon, a town in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon

Al-Abbas ibn al-Walid

While the establishment of the madina ("city") of Anjar ("Ayn al-Jarr") in the Beqaa Valley is normally attributed to al-Walid I, other sources, including the Byzantine Greek chronicler Theophanes the Confessor and contemporary historian Jere L. Bacharach, credit Abbas for the city's founding in the fall of 714.

Al-Ghassaniyah

:For the town in Lebanon, see Ghassanieh, Lebanon

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.

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.

Edde

Edde, Lebanon, a village located 45 km north of Beirut, Lebanon

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.

Hasib Sabbagh

Sabbagh left Palestine in April 1948 and moved to Lebanon.

Hôpital Saint Joseph des Soeurs de la Croix

Hôpital Saint Joseph des Soeurs de la Croix or the Hospital of Saint Joseph of the Sisters of the Holy Cross is a private, non-profit medical institution in Dora, Lebanon.

Iaal Fortress

Iaal Fortress is a huge defensive castle located in Iaal in the Zgharta District of the North Governorate of Lebanon.

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.

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, New Hampshire

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

The village of West Lebanon occupies the western part of the city, along the Connecticut River.

Pescennius Niger

Some cities previously loyal to him decided that it was time to change their allegiance, in particular Laodicea and Tyre.

Phoenicia under Hellenistic rule

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

Salah Suheimat

MP Salah Suheimat received his primary and preparatory education at the primary school in Karak and then completed his secondary education at the secondary school of Salt (As-Salt),and later obtained a Diploma in Agriculture in Beirut, Lebanon.

Sarkis Soghanalian

Soghanalian was born to an Armenian family in what was then French mandate Syria Iskanderun (now modern Turkey).

Tyrus

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

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.


1948 Winter Olympics

Chile, Denmark, Iceland, Korea, and Lebanon all made their Winter Olympic debut at these Games.

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.

Ali Mamlouk

On 11 August 2012, Lebanon indicted Ali Mamlouk in absentia and former Lebanese Information Minister Michel Samaha for their alleged plots to assassinate Lebanese political and religious figures.

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.

Battle of Beirut

Siege of Beirut (1982), a siege by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War

Catholicate

For example, within the Armenian Apostolic Church there are two catholicosates: the Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin, Etchmiadzin-Armenia, and the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, Antelias-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.

Chyah airstrike

The Chyah Airstrike or the Chyah massacre was an attack by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on the Shiyyah suburb in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on August 7, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War.

Communist Action Organization in Lebanon

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

Dalal Mughrabi

As part of the 2008 Israel–Hezbollah prisoner exchange, Mughrabi's remains were supposed to be exhumed and returned to Lebanon.

Displaced persons camp

In recent times, camps have existed in many parts of the world for groups of displaced persons including for refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan, and for Palestinians in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

Dominic Waghorn

He worked there for almost five years, during which time he covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 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.

Flight 202

Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202, a Douglas DC-4 which crashed in Lebanon on 21 November 1959

George Riashi

George Riashi (Qaa el Reem, near Zahlé, Lebanon on November 25, 1933 – October 28, 2012) was the Greek Melkite Catholic bishop of Tripoli and all North Lebanon.

Green Drinks

Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott, Ian Grant and Yorick Benjamin, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 400 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Manila, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon.

Islam in Venezuela

On 20 July 2006, dozens of people marched in Caracas towards the Israeli embassy to protest against the war in Lebanon.

John Tidmarsh

Tidmarsh had many more overseas assignments, including the revolt in Lebanon in June 1958 to overthrow Camille Chamoun, the two wars between India and Pakistan in 1962 and 1965, a three month assignment in Vietnam in 1965 and the USA, where he covered the whole of the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama, led by Martin Luther King.

Kafarakab

From Kfarakab, the Maalouf clan migrated within Lebanon to Zahlé and Niha in the Bekaa Valley where it became one of the most prominent families in these villages.

Kentucky Route 289

KY 289 begins at an intersection with US 68/KY 55 in Campbellsville, Taylor County, heading north on two-lane undivided Lebanon Avenue.

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 National Symphony Orchestra

The Orchestra played host to well known soloists such as the Polish guitarist Vladimir Gromolak, Dutch violinist Werther Vosn, tenor Plácido Domingo, composer and soprano Hiba Al Kawas, Spanish guitarist José Maria Gallardo del Rey, Lebanese violinist Zareh Tcheroyan, the Polish pianist Radivonovitch and the Japanese pianist Atsuko Seta.

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.

Maurice Chappaz

Maurice Chappaz carried out still other numerous trips around the world : Laponia (1968), Paris (1968), Nepal and Tibet (1970), Mount Athos (1972), Lebanon (1974), Russia (1974 et 1979), China (1981), Quebec and New York (1990).

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.

Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great

The Monastery of Saint Macarius maintains spiritual, academic and fraternal links with several monasteries abroad, including the monastery of Chevtogne in Belgium, Solesmes Abbey and the Monastery of the Transfiguration in France, Deir El Harf in Lebanon and the Convent of the Incarnation in England.

Mounira Solh

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

Multiculturalism in Australia

Following the upsurge of support for the One Nation Party in 1996, Lebanese-born Australian anthropologist Ghassan Hage published a critique in 1997 of Australian multiculturalism in the book White Nation.

Naji Hakim

In 1975, he moved to Paris to finish his engineering studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications since the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Beirut in Lebanon closed because of war.

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.

Qana Massacre

Qana airstrike, also known as the Second Qana massacre, an attack in July 2006 on a civilian building near Qana, Lebanon

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.

Rizk

Georgina Rizk (Arabic: جورجينا رزق), Lebanon's first and so far only Miss Universe

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.

Swatara State Park

After a proposal to raze the historic building, Swatara Watershed Association, led by Jo Ellen Litz, a Lebanon County commissioner, took over control of the building, which has been preserved by them including the installation of new roofing materials, but the cabin no longer has utilities or windows.

Tamirace Fakhoury

Tamirace Fakhoury is a Lebanese poet born in Beit Chabab, Mount Lebanon.

The Broken Wings

The Broken Wings was the first Fish film produced in Lebanon to receive an international commercial release.

The School of Ecclesiastic Music

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

Thermobaric weapon

Thermobaric and fuel-air explosives have been used in guerrilla warfare since the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing in Lebanon, which used a gas-enhanced explosive mechanism, probably propane, butane or acetylene.

Toryalai Wesa

After securing his BS in Agricultural Economics and Extension from the Faculty of Agriculture at Kabul University in 1973, he pursued his MS at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at American University of Beirut in 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.

William McKendree

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

Yishuv

However, in 1941 British forces successfully fought Vichy forces for control of Syria and Lebanon, thus removing the threat of invasion from the north, at least as long as German armies in Eastern Europe could be held back by the Red Army and thus unable to easily advance towards the Near East from the north.