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	Baalbek, Lebanon
		Ancient legends assert that Baalbek was the birthplace of Baal.
		The origin and development of Baalbek may be considered from two quite different paradigms of prehistory, one the conventional approach that views civilization as having only begun in middle Neolithic times and the alternative approach which suggests that developed cultures existed in what is archaeologically known as the Paleolithic period.
		The ruins of Baalbek, situated on a large hill (1150 meters) with an expansive view over the adjoining plains, are bordered on two sides by the town of Baalbek and on the other sides by agricultural land belonging to local farmers.
	www.sacredsites.com /middle_east/lebanon/baalbek.htm (2560 words)

	Baalbek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Modern Baalbek (Arabic: بعلبك) is a town in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon, altitude 3,850 ft (1,170 m), situated east of the Litani River.
		Baalbek, badly shaken in an earthquake in 1759 was really in the hands of the Metawali (see Lebanon), who retained it against other Lebanonese tribes.
		In November 1898, the German Emperor Wilhelm II on his way to Jerusalem, and passing by Baalbek was equally struck by the magnificence of the ruins projecting from the rubble, and the dreary condition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baalbek (1441 words)

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		Baalbek has its name from Phoenician, meaning "City of Baal," indicating that it was a major cult centre for the god Baal, among the most important in Canaanite and Phoenician religions.
		The economy of modern Baalbek is based on local administration and agriculture, for which the town serves as a administrative and commercial centre.
		Baalbek is the main town of eastern Lebanon, and is well-connected by rail and road to the main urban centres of both Lebanon and Syria.
	i-cias.com /e.o/baalbek.htm (407 words)

	Baalbek - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Baalbek
		Roman ruins of a temple complex at Baalbek, in the Bekaa, Lebanon.
		Baalbek was made a Roman colony under Julius Caesar.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Baalbek (341 words)

	Baalbek
		Baalbek is named after the Phoenician god Baal for whom it is thought to have been a sanctuary -- Baal being one of the several names for the Syrian sun-god Hadad.
		Baalbek is 86 Km from Beirut over the mountains, on the main highway to Damascus as far as Chtaura where the road to Baalbek bifurcates north.
		Baalbek is a small town outstanding for its acropolis considered among the most important Roman ruins, and largest in the world.
	www.aley.com /lebanon/baalbek.htm (252 words)

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		The ruins of Baalbek are situated in the Bekaa Valley, 85 kilometers from Beirut.
		1) Baalbek is situated in one of the largest and most fertile valleys in the Middle East, and on one of the main trade routes of the Fertile Crescent; therefore it definitely is not in the wilderness.
		In 1134 Baalbek was over-run by the Mongol Jengis Khan and in 1158 Baalbek was almost destroyed by a series of earthquakes.
	www.geocities.com /baalbek72 (1081 words)

	The Secret of Baalbek
		Aside from the incased trilithon, the attention of the visitor to Baalbek who inspects the wall of the acropolis is drawn to stones of a bossed shape with an indented rim on all four sides of the face of the stone.
		Baalbek or, as the Romans called it, Heliopolis, was venerated in the Roman world as the place of an old cult of an ancient oracle, and it rivalled successfully other venerated temples of the Roman Empire.
		Baalbek lies in a valley (Bi’qa) between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon, and on the junction of the roads that connect Beirut from the west and Damascus from the east with Hamath in the north.
	www.varchive.org /ce/baalbek/baalbek.htm (6573 words)

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		Ever since the 60's the temple ruins at Baalbek, Lebanon, present an important cornerstone in possible extraterrestrial technology in the remote past due to the gigantic stone blocks used.
		However, with the eruption of the bloody civil war, Baalbek was turned into the headquarters of the Shiite Hizbollah militia; not a place for a peaceful and carefree stay.
		Baalbek is a perfect example that the sacral spirit of a site can be the host of various religions for millennia.
	www.destinationspace.net /ancient/baalbek.asp (1383 words)

	IDF commandos nab five low-level Hezbollah men in Baalbek raid - Haaretz - Israel News
		In Baalbek, the commandos captured five Hezbollah militants and killed at least 10 others before completing the operation and safely returning to Israel, IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said.
		The IDF confirmed that its troops returned from the operation to their base in Israel unharmed and that several militants were captured by the raiding forces and taken back to Israel.
		Baalbek is about 100 kilometers north of the Litani River, which Israel had set as a northern boundary for an expanded ground operation that was announced in the early hours of Tuesday.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/745276.html (1113 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Phoenix Of The Plain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At Baalbek was a perpetual spring, the Ras El-Ain, which could sustain the city through a siege, however protracted, and the valley—75 miles long and four to six miles wide—grew an abundance of fruit and grain for the city's large garrison.
		Churches at Baalbek were promptly converted to mosques, and even the red marble columns removed from Baalbek to adorn the Hagia Sophia by order of the Emperor Justinian, became Moslem property with the capture of Constantinople in 1453.
		Baalbek's monumental setting dwarfs spectator, who cannot but reflect on the insubstantiality of his being and the brevity of his span, when confronted with the stone evidence of Baalbek's ageless endurance around him.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196702/phoenix.of.the.plain.htm (2699 words)

	Baalbek: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Modern Baalbek is a town in the Bekaa Beqaa quick summary:
		A place in ancient israel, baal-gad was a canaanite town in the valley of lebanon at the foot of hermon, near the source of jordan river....
		The united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization, commonly known as unesco, is a specialized agency of the united nations system established...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/baalbek.htm (3463 words)

	Baalbek Trilithon - A Wall With Two Pasts
		But, lavishing great architecture on Baalbek then seems totally out of character for the undeniably selfish Rome, which had at the very same time been stealing historic treasures from other countries, such as the obelisks from Egypt.
		This fact naturally gives rise to a different scenario: At Baalbek Rome had found a fabulous ready made foundation, a mighty platform to add a suitably majestic structure to, stamping the Roman eagle upon the whole for the perception of future generations.
		Despite being as magnificient as they are, the spectacular and unprecedented construction achievements at Baalbek were not heralded to the world as its own by the proud and glory hungry Rome.
	www.geocities.com /jirimruzek/baalbek.htm (2496 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Festival at Baalbek (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baalbek today is by no means the great city that its history would indicate.
		Despite this, Baalbek was still one of the world's lesser known wonders until, in 1955, Zalfa Chamoun, wife of then President of Lebanon Camille Chamoun, gave her active support to a proposal to capitalize on Baalbek's magnificent ruins and perfect summer nights by presenting concerts there.
		To get to Baalbek from Beirut requires an hour and a half of hair-raising driving through Lebanon's mountains, and the ribbon of tail lights on concert nights is almost as colorful as the lighted temples across the flat Bekaa Valley.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197203/festival.at.baalbek.htm (1021 words)

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		Baalbek, with its colossal structures, is one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee.
		Baalbek, with its colossal structures, is one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at...
		Map Baalbek means 'God (Baal) of the Beqaa', and refers to the fertile Beqaa plain.
	www.hotvsnot.com /search/?s=baalbek (319 words)

	Baalbek - what archaeology tells us about it
		The stones in Baalbek are not as heavy as claimed by many authors.
		But in Baalbek, where they moved several blocks, maybe they built an alley of winches, where they passed the block from winch to winch.
		The quarry was slightly higher than the platform of the forum, so the Romans only had to fill a small trench with rubble to bull the blocks horizontally to their places.
	www.ramtops.co.uk /baalbek.html (1270 words)

	BAALBEK - LoveToKnow Article on BAALBEK (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is famous for its temple ruins of the Roman period, before which we have no record of it, certain though it be that Heliopolis is a translation of an earlier native name, in which Baal was an element.
		In 1400 Timur pillaged it, and in 1517 it passed, with the rest of Syria, to the Ottoman dominion.
		But Ottoman jurisdiction was merely nominal in the Lebanon district, and Baalbek was really in the hands of the Metawali (see LEBANON), who retained it against other Lebanon tribes, until Jezzar Pasha, the rebel governor of the Acre province, broke their power in the last half of the 18th century.
	www.1911ency.org /B/BA/BAALBEK.htm (593 words)

	Article on Baalbek - Lebanon's Sacred Fortress
		I refer to the almighty Temple of Jupiter, situated besides two smaller temples, one dedicated to Venus, the goddess of love, and the other dedicated to Bacchus, the god of fertility and good cheer (although some argue this temple was dedicated to Mercury, the winged god of communication).
		Following the death of Alexander in 323 BC, Phoenicia was ruled successively by the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt and the Seleucid kings of Syria until the arrival of the Romans under a general named Pompey in 63 BC.
		For instance, the French scholar, Louis F licien de Saulcy, stayed at Baalbek from 16 to 18 March 1851 and became convinced that the podium walls were the `remains of a pre-Roman temple'.(39)
	www.andrewcollins.com /page/articles/baalbek.htm (3612 words)

	Jupiter's Temple, Baalbek, Lebanon
		Orthodox scholars of today scoff at all suggestions that Romans had not brought the great blocks to the temple site, despite the fact that building with megalithic blocks was not at all in the Roman style, and was no longer practiced in those days.
		It is a fact that the big block still in a Baalbek quarry seems to weigh about the same as the famous abandoned obelisk at Aswan, Egypt.
		Despite being as magnificent as they are, the spectacular and unprecedented construction achievements at Baalbek were not heralded to the world as its own by the proud and glory hungry Rome.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_baalbek_2.htm (2357 words)

	Baalbek - helpful tips & insights by a travel authority
		Baalbek in Lebanon is one of the world's grandest archaeological sites.
		The Corinthian pillars that supported the Baalbek temple roof were massive, too.
		The Temple of Bacchus (like, the Temple of Jupiter and some other historic Baalbek structures) was severely damaged relatively recently (mid-18th century) by a fierce earthquake.
	www.hillmanwonders.com /baalbek/baalbek.htm (165 words)

	World Mysteries - Mystic Places - Baalbeck
		The massive multi-level platform found at Baalbek, is believed by some scientists to be one of the "only" prediluvial sites that survived the flood.
		One of the most puzzling aspects of the ruins at Baalbek are the 1,000-plus ton stones which formed part of the original temple platform.
		A recent visit to the site allowed inspection of these large stones, and of the one at the quarry (pictured on the cover), where new measurements were taken which revealed the largest and most precisely cut stone at the Trilithon may weigh in at over 1,500 tons.
	www.world-mysteries.com /mpl_5.htm (2138 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baalbek
		Baalbek has been destroyed almost entirely by earthquakes and wars, but even today its ruins are said to be the most beautiful in
		Baalbek was made a Maronite bishopric, with about 30,000 Catholics.
		Baalbek; further, the town is a station of the
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02177a.htm (326 words)

	Baalbek on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spectacle de la compagnie Merce Cunningham lors du festival de Baalbek au Liban en juillet dernier Le père de la danse con.
		Tres palestinos y un soldado libanés muertos en tiroteo en Baalbek
		From Baalbek to Baghdad and beyond Marcel Proust's foreign memories of France.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Baalbek.asp (816 words)

	Photos of Baalbek (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carol and Sean at the ruins of Anjar.
		The temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, the most complete Roman temple in the world.
		Baalbek lies in the northern part of the Bekaa Valley, the most fertile region in Lebanon.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~conreys/beirut/baalbekphotos.html (183 words)

	ATV adventure in Baalbek Lebanon booking
		This package is aimed to give you a taste of culture and adventure in the city of the sun.
		If you think you the know the place very well, you might change your mind after experiencing the sunset while visiting Bacchus, sleeping in the new charming La Memoire hotel in Baalbek, and making a 6 hours quad ride to the most remote corners of the mountains.
		6 hours quad ride in the mountains around Baalbek with coffee break with the shephards.
	www.lebanontourism.com /tour/atv-baalbek (140 words)

	Article on Baalbek Part 2 - Lebanon's Sacred Fortress
		It is feasible that, if the Watchers and Nephilim (and therefore the Titans and gigantes) are to be seen as a lost race of human beings, any presumed pre-Phoenician culture in Lebanon could not have failed to have encountered their presence in the Near East.
		All the indications are that Sanchoniatho's Byblos culture eventually experienced a period of fierce wars that waged between Cronus, or Saturn, and his titanic brothers under the leadership of Titan or Gyges, and then finally between Cronus' son Jupiter and the rest of the Olympian deities.
		Is it possible that Baalbek's first `city' was constructed, not just as a religious centre, but also as an impenetrable fortress against attacks by whatever we see as constituting the gigantes and Titans of mythology?
	www.andrewcollins.com /page/articles/baalbek2.htm (2902 words)

	FOCUS on LEBANON - Baalbek
		It is one of the world's greatest historical sites, the most gigantic complex of Roman temples ever built, its columns are the tallest ever erected, its stones the largest ever used.The Acropolis of Baalbek is the largest and best preserved corpus of Roman architecture left to us.
		Its temples, dedicated to Jupiter, Venus and Bacchus (larger than Parthenon in Athens), were built in the second and third centuries A.D. The ruins present a majestic ensemble: two temples, two courtyards preceded by propylaea (ceremonial entrances), and huge blocks particularly the three which each measure between 19-20m.
		or a number of years Baalbek's flooflit mercurial columns presided over the annual renowned international festival which featured theater groups, orchestras, ballet troupes and performers from all parts of the world.
	www.focusmm.com /lebanon/baalb_1.htm (224 words)

	Baalbek \| Travel Story and Pictures from Lebanon
		Baalbek was founded around 1000BC, and developed into a Phoenician place of worship for a triad of Gods.
		Renamed Heliopolis by the Greeks, Baalbek remained a religious centre dedicated to a triad of Gods: Zeus, Aphrodite and Hermes, which was later translated into Jupiter, Venus and Mercury by the Romans.
		The latter wanted to establish a temple complex surpassing all previous efforts, and, at the height of their power, managed to do so.
	www.traveladventures.org /continents/asia/baalbek.shtml (385 words)

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