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The city is known for its fish restaurants, open-air bars, and outdoor cafes. Yachts cruise into its harbor today as they did in the 1960s and 1970s when Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra were regular visitors to the city. [55] Byblos was crowned as the "Arab Tour Capital" for the year 2016 by the Lebanese minister of tourism in the Grand Serail ...
The highly defensible archeological tell of Byblos is flanked by two harbors that were used for sea trade. [37] The royal necropolis of Byblos is a semicircular burial ground located on the promontory summit, on a spur overlooking both seaports of the city, within the walls of ancient Byblos. [38] [39]
The Kings of Byblos were the rulers of Byblos, the ancient Phoenician city in what is now Lebanon. Scholars have pieced together the fragmented list from various archaeological finds since the 19th century.
Byblos District has three seats allocated to it in the Lebanese Parliament. Two of these seats are allocated to Maronite Catholics, while the other seat is allocated to Shia Muslims. As of 2022, the religious make-up of the Byblos District's 85,684 voters were roughly 66% Maronite Catholics , 21% Shia , 4% Greek Orthodox , 4% Sunni , 2% Greek ...
Byblos Castle. Byblos Castle (Arabic: قلعة جبيل) is a Crusader castle in Byblos, Lebanon.In Crusader times it was known as the Castle of Gibelet / ˈ dʒ ɪ b ə l ɪ t, ˈ dʒ ɪ b l ɪ t /, also spelled Giblet, which belonged to the Genoese Embriaco family, Lords of the city.
The temple was dedicated to Ba'alat Gebal, the goddess of the city of Byblos, known later to the Greeks as Atargatis. [2] Built in 2800 BCE, [3] it was the largest and most important sanctuary in ancient Byblos, [4] and is considered to be "one of the first monumental structures of the Syro-Palestinian region". [3]
The Temple of the Obelisks (French: Temple aux Obelisques, Arabic: معبد الأنصاب maebad al'ansab), also known as the L-shaped Temple and Temple of Resheph [1] was an important Bronze Age temple structure in the World Heritage Site of Byblos. [2] It is considered "perhaps the most spectacular" of the ancient structures of Byblos. [3]
Baalat Gebal (Phoenician: 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤕 𐤂𐤁𐤋, [5] BʿLT GBL; also romanized as Ba’alat Gebal [6] or Baalat Gubal; [7] literally "Lady of Byblos"), also known as Bēltu ša Gubla (Akkadian: d NIN ša uru Gub-la) [8] and Baaltis, [4] was the tutelary goddess of the city of Byblos. While in the past it was often assumed her name is ...