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The name itself has several meanings as the word Bint in Arabic means Daughter. Therefore it could be "daughter of the mountain". In the town there are evidence from the Roman and Byzantine period, as seen in temple ruins, columns and houses. [2] Bint Jbeil in the early 1850s, by van de Velde
Its present Arabic name Jubayl (جبيل) or J(e)beil is a direct descendant of these earlier names, although apparently modified by a misunderstanding of the name as the triliteral root GBL or JBL, meaning "mountain". When the Arabic form of the name is used, it is typically rendered Jbeil, Jbail, or Jbayl in English.
The Bint Jbeil District (Arabic: قضاء بنت جبيل, Qaḍāʾ Bint Jubayl) is a district in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Bint Jbeil . Municipalities
Byblos District (Arabic: قضاء جبيل; transliteration: Qadaa' Jbeil), also called the Jbeil District (Jbeil is Lebanese Arabic for "Byblos"; standard Arabic Jubail), is a district of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is located to the northeast of Lebanon's capital Beirut. The capital is Byblos.
Southern Lebanon (Arabic: جنوب لبنان, romanized: janoub lubnan) is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s. The Rashaya and Western Beqaa districts, the southernmost districts of the Beqaa Governorate.
Rmaish (also spelled Rmeish, Rmaich, and Rmeich; Arabic: رميش) is a municipality located in the District of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, south of Ain Ebel, near the Lebanese-Israeli border covering an area of 20 km 2 (7.7 sq mi). The ruins found in the village indicate that the area was occupied by the Romans and the Crusaders at some stage in history.
An Israeli air strike on a residence in south Lebanon has killed a Lebanese-Australian man, his wife, and his brother, who was a member of armed group Hezbollah, security and local sources told ...
Al-Ghandouriyah (Arabic: الغندوريه) is a municipality in Lebanon located in the Bint Jbeil District, south of Froun. It was formerly known as Aidib.