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Al-Qalamoun (Arabic: القلمون) is a Mediterranean seaside town of the North Governorate of Lebanon in the Tripoli District. [1] The town is 5 km south of Tripoli [ 2 ] and is also the first town south of Tripoli.
Zahlé (Arabic: زَحْلة) is a city in eastern Lebanon, and the capital and largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon.With around 150,000 [1] [2] inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut and Tripoli [3] [4] and the fourth-largest taking the whole urban area (the Jounieh urban area is larger).
A Köppen climate classification map of Lebanon Lebanon has a Mediterranean climate characterized by a long, hot, and dry summer, and a cool, rainy winter. [ 1 ] Fall is a transitional season with a lowering of temperature and little rain; spring occurs when the winter rains cause the vegetation to revive. [ 1 ]
Tyre juts out from the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and is located about 80 km (50 mi) south of Beirut.It originally consisted of two distinct urban centres: Tyre itself, which was on an island just 500 to 700m offshore, and the associated settlement of Ushu on the adjacent mainland, later called Palaetyrus, meaning "Old Tyre" in Ancient Greek. [7]
Today's village of Anfeh is built around the ruins of several short-lived cities going back to the pre-Phoenician period.Natural dwelling caves abound on the surrounding hill of Al-Gheer; the original city lies on a small near-island about half a kilometer into the sea.
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / ⓘ, bay-ROOT; [4] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, [5] which makes it the fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by Nahum Sokolow.Sokolow had adopted the name of a Mesopotamian site near the city of Babylon mentioned in Ezekiel: "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib [Tel Aviv], that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven ...
CS1 – Design found in Barber's The Cottage Souvenir (c. 1887–1888); CS2 — Design found in Barber's The Cottage Souvenir No. 2 (1891); CS3 — Design found in Barber's The Cottage Souvenir Revised and Enlarged (1892)