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Cedars of Lebanon State Park is a state park in Wilson County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. It consists of 900 acres (364 ha) situated amidst the 9,420-acre (3,810 ha) Cedars of Lebanon State Forest. The park and forest are approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Lebanon, Tennessee.
The Cedar Forest of ancient Mesopotamian religion appears in several sections of the Epic of Gilgamesh. [21] The Lebanon Cedar is mentioned 103 times in the Bible. [22] [23] [24] In the Hebrew text it is named ארז and in the Greek text (LXX) it is named κέδρου. Example verses include: "Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may ...
Why we love it: Eight miles of hiking trails through the Cedars of Lebanon State Forest await visitors at the Cedars of Lebanon State Park. The 1,139-acre park became a state park in 1955 and was ...
Cedrus libani, commonly known as cedar of Lebanon or Lebanese cedar (Arabic: أرز لبناني, romanized: ʾarz lubnāniyy), is a species of tree in the genus Cedrus, a part of the pine family, native to the mountains of the Eastern Mediterranean basin.
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BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the ...
[11] [12] Cedars of Lebanon State Park, located a few miles to the north, is a more protected portion of the much larger Cedars of Lebanon State Forest itself. [13] Vine is likewise home to the Nashville Superspeedway, which is also claimed by the unincorporated community of Gladeville located further away to the northwest. [14]
Located south-east of Beirut, the region comprises a narrow coastal strip notable for the Christian town of Damour, and the valleys and mountains of the western slopes of Jabal Barouk, the name of the local Mount Lebanon massif, on which the largest forest of Cedars of Lebanon is found. The mountains are high enough to receive snow.