Baalbek District ( Arabic : قضاء بعلبك ) is an administrative district in the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate of the Republic of Lebanon , having the city Baalbek as its capital. It is by far the largest district in the country comprising a total of 2,319 km (895 sq mi).
4-399: Major towns of the district are Hallanieh , Temnin el Fawka , Chmestar , Duris , Jdeide , Kasarnaba and Bodai 34°00′25″N 36°12′14″E / 34.00694°N 36.20389°E / 34.00694; 36.20389 This Lebanon location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Temnin el Fawka Temnin el-Foka ( Arabic : تمنين الفوقا )
8-414: A hill . It leads to a cistern underground. A gully has formed at the outflow, where a boundary pillar is carved with the image of a goddess . It resembles a similar cippus at Kafr Zabad . The inner walls consist of four layers of massive, roughly hewn cuboids up to the vault. Only the vaulted arch and two rows of stones on the side walls were preserved before the restoration. The stone blocks of
12-516: Is a village located approximately 28 kilometers southwest of Baalbek in the Baalbek District , in the Beqaa valley of Lebanon , at an altitude of 1100 meters above sea level. The village is famous for its Roman nymphaeum which is close to the spring of Ain el-Jobb . Temnin was settled since Roman times, but the original name is unknown. The town is divided into two municipalities,
16-405: The other being Temnine Et Tahta . Ottoman tax registers from 1533–1548 indicate the village had 64 households and 11 bachelors, and one Imam , all Muslims . In 1838, Eli Smith noted Temnin el-Foka's (or "Temnin the upper") population as being predominantly Metawileh . The nymphaeum is an arched watercourse built of large stones that has been constructed 4 metres (13 ft) deep into
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