Marj (Arabic: مرج (البقاع الغربي) a village located in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. Al Marj’s population is approximately 25,000 Lebanese. Al Marj is known for being the biggest manufacturer of furniture in western Bekaa, for having one of the biggest souks in the beBand for is beautiful green fields.
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Bar Elias is a town located in the Zahlé District, Bekaa Governorate, Lebanon. With around 40,000 inhabitants, mostly Sunni Muslims, it is the second largest town, after Zahlé, in the Zahlé District. Bar Elias is a village of the Bekaa Valley, the center of Bekaa. It is known widely for its transit passes, as it is halfway between Beirut and Damascus.
As the distance between the center of the northern Bekaa and the south became important because of its central valleys and on the international line of the most important economic centers and the largest commercial markets, Bar Elias has good neighborly relations with the rest of the towns and villages in the province. Easily accessible from all directions and in the center of the Bekaa Valley, Bar Elias is an open gate to all guests and visitors.
Bar Elias is 900 m above sea level, at a distance of 51 km from Beirut via Damascus-Chtoura. It is spread over both sides of the international line between Beirut and Damascus over the exterior 4 km. A lovely green plain extends across distances up to Anjar to the east, Zahlé to the west, Kafr Zabad and Addalhamiah to the north, and Almarj to the south.
It consists of a vast land area of about 35000 dunums, of which about 7000 dunums are residential and the rest agricultural.
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Taanayel, also transliterated Tanayal, is a village located in the Zahlé District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon.
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Haouch El Harimeh is a village located in the Western Beqaa District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon.
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The Battle of Anjar was fought on 1 November 1623 between the army of Fakhr al-Din II and a coalition army led by the governor of Damascus Mustafa Pasha.
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Anjar, also known as Hawsh Mousa, is a town of Lebanon, near the Syrian border, located in the Bekaa Valley. The population is 2,400, consisting almost entirely of Armenians. The total area is about twenty square kilometers.
Since 1984, the ruins of the Umayyad settlement of Anjar have been recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
It is a very central town near Zahlé and nearer to Beirut about, 50 km away.