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The Beqaa Valley (Arabic: وادي البقاع, Wādī l-Biqā‘, Lebanese [bʔaːʕ] ), also transliterated as Bekaa, Biqâ, and Becaa and known in classical antiquity as Coele-Syria, is a fertile valley in eastern Lebanon. It is Lebanon's most important farming region. [1]
View across the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. The Temples of the Beqaa Valley are a number of shrines and Roman temples that are dispersed around the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. The most important and famous are those in Roman Heliopolis. A few temples are built on former buildings of the Phoenician & Hellenistic era, but all are considered to be of ...
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The Beqaa Valley , also transliterated as Bekaa, Biqâ, and Becaa and known in classical antiquity as Coele-Syria, is a fertile valley in eastern Lebanon. It is Lebanon's most important farming region. Industry also flourishes in Beqaa, especially that related to agriculture.
Rising tensions between Israel and Syria over Lebanon escalated in the early 1980s and culminated in Syria deploying SAM batteries in the Beqaa Valley. On June 6, 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon, and on the third day of the war, with clashes ongoing between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Syrian Army, Israel decided to launch the operation.
- June 9, 1982
- Decisive Israeli victory
Beqaa Valley or Al-Biqā is a valley in central Lebanon. Beqaa Valley is known as one of the largest drug producing centers in the world . Cannabis is grown there.
Baalbek (/ ˈ b ɑː l b ɛ k, ˈ b eɪ ə l b ɛ k /; Arabic: بَعْلَبَكّ, romanized: Baʿlabakk; Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about 67 km (42 mi) northeast of Beirut. It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate.
The Baqa'a Valley, sometimes called Beqa'a Valley, is a fertile agricultural Palestinian area in the West Bank, just east of Hebron. Located in the area are the Palestinian villages Al Bowereh, Al Baqa and Wadi al-Ghrous. The Israeli settlement Givat Harsina abuts on the northern outskirts; Kiryat Arba borders the south. The Valley is occupied ...