Aana (عانا) is a village in the Western Bekaa District of Lebanon , about 57 km (35 mi) from Beirut . Its name comes from the Syriac word "'ono", which means 'the flock'. The village has two churches, one dedicated to St. Elias ( Elijah ) and the other to the Virgin Mary in the adjacent borough of Deir Tahniche . The village produces wine and fruit . The wines of Chateau Musar grow in a tract of land about 5 km (3.1 mi) long, land that is the home of Lebanese-Brazilian Carlos Eddé .
3-1170: In 1838, Eli Smith noted it as '' Ana ; a village on the West side of the Beqaa Valley . Average altitude: 970 metres (3,180 ft) This Lebanon location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Eli Smith Eli Smith (September 13, 1801 – January 11, 1857) was an American Protestant missionary and scholar. Smith was born in Northford, Connecticut , to Eli and Polly (née Whitney) Smith. He graduated from Yale College in 1821 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1826. He worked in Malta until 1829, then in company with H. G. O. Dwight traveled through Armenia and Georgia to Persia . They published their observations, Missionary Researches in Armenia , in 1833 in two volumes. Smith settled in Beirut in 1833. Along with Edward Robinson , he made two trips to
6-570: The Holy Land in 1838 and 1852, acting as an interpreter for Robinson in his quest to identify and record biblical place names in Palestine, which was subsequently published in Robinson's Biblical Researches in Palestine . He is known for bringing the first printing press with Arabic type to Syria . He went on to pursue the task which he considered to be his life's work: translation of
9-658: The Bible into Arabic. Although he died before completing the task, the work was completed by C. V. Van Dyck of the Syrian Mission and published in 1860 to 1865. Smith married three times. His first wife was Sarah Lanman Huntington Smith , who was also a missionary. She died in 1836. He then married Maria Ward Chapin, who died in 1842. He married Mehitable (Hetty) Simkins (Butler) Smith on October 7, 1846, in Northampton, Massachusetts . His daughter Mary Elizabeth Smith
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