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Mount Hermon (Arabic: جبل الشيخ / ALA-LC: Jabal al-Shaykh ('Mountain of the Sheikh', Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [ʒa.bal eʃ.ʃeːx]), Hebrew: הַר חֶרְמוֹן, Har Ḥermōn) is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range.
The geomorphology of Lebanon consists of the coastal plain, the western mountain range (Mount Lebanon), an interior valley (the Beqaa Valley), and the eastern mountain range (the Anti-Lebanon). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Lebanese mountains exceeding elevations of 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) above sea level constitute 22% of the country's total land area. [ 3 ]
Mount Lebanon also lent its name to two political designations: a semi-autonomous province in Ottoman Syria that was established in 1861 and the central Governorate of modern Lebanon (see Mount Lebanon Governorate). The Mount Lebanon administrative region emerged in a time of rise of nationalism after the civil war of 1860.
The Anti-Lebanon Mountains mark the border between Syria and Lebanon. The range has peaks of over 10,000 ft (3,000 m) and blocks precipitation from the Mediterranean Sea, so the region of Damascus is sometimes subject to droughts. However, in ancient times, the Barada River mitigated this, which originates from mountain streams fed by melting snow.
The 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus, also known as the 1860 Christian–Druze war, was a civil conflict in Mount Lebanon during Ottoman rule in 1860–1861 fought mainly between the local Druze and Christians.
George Taylor divided up the Temples of Lebanon into three groups, one group of Temples of the Beqaa Valley lies north of the road from Beirut to Damascus. Second, there is the group in the area south of the same road, including the Wadi al-Taym and the western flank of Mount Hermon. Third, the group in the area west of a line drawn along the ...
The State of Jabal Druze was an autonomous area in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon from 1921 to 1936. [4] [5] In the past, the name Jabal al-Druze was used for a different area, located in Mount Lebanon. [citation needed] In Syria, most Druze reside in the As-Suwayda Governorate, which encompasses almost all of Jabal al-Druze.
Mount Amana is at the southern end [3] [4] of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, [5] [6] [7] [1] near the source of the river Abana. [3] [8] [4] [9] Paul Haupt identifies this mountain as Jabal az-Zabadany, northwest of Damascus. [8] Mount Amana is often confused with Mount Amanus, also known as Mount Hor, at the north end of the Syrian plain. [a]