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The Nahr al-Kalb (Arabic: نهر الكلب, meaning Dog River) is a river in Lebanon. It runs for 31 km (19 mi) from a spring in Jeita near the Jeita Grotto to the Mediterranean Sea. Christ the king overlooking the river basin
Three Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions are known, [1] all of which bear the cartouche of Ramses II.This was first identified by Karl Richard Lepsius. [13] At least one of these is thought to have been placed during the Pharaoh's first campaign in the Levant, and set the Nahr al-Kalb as the border between Egypt's province of Canaan and the possessions of the Hittites.
The Battle of the Dog River was fought in 1100 between Crusader forces and the Seljuk Turks near the Nahr al-Kalb river in what is now modern day Lebanon. The Crusaders were led by Baldwin of Boulogne, who had been the Count of Edessa while the Turks were led by Duqaq of Damascus.
19th century map of Lebanon and northern Palestine with modern and ancient names of rivers. This is a list of waterways named as rivers in Lebanon.Lebanon has 22 rivers all of which are non-navigable; 28 rivers originate on the western face of the Lebanon range and run through the steep gorges and into the Mediterranean Sea, the other 6 arise in the Beqaa Valley.
Dog River (Ontario), a river in Thunder Bay District, Ontario; ... Nahr al-Kalb, a river and gorge in Lebanon; See also. Dog (disambiguation)
Lebanon’s leading avant-garde filmmaker Ghassan Salhab has always been unapologetically art house, scraping away at traditional forms of narrative to create elliptical works reliant on unfussy ...
Police in Colombia have arrested a fruit vendor in connection with the murder of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found in a river days after she vanished. Laura's mother, a street vendor ...
The Litani River (Arabic: نهر الليطاني, romanized: Nahr al-Līṭānī), the classical Leontes (Ancient Greek: Λεόντης, romanized: Leóntes, lit. 'lion 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.