Anti-Lebanon
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
|
Date: 2008
Anti-Lebanon ancient Anti-Libanus, Arabic Jabal al Sharqi, mountain range between Syria and Lebanon, rising to Mt. Hermon, 9,232 ft (2,814 m) high. Once noted for its forests of oak, pine, cypress, and juniper, the range is largely barren and stony. Its name also appears as Anti-Liban.
Author not available, ANTI-LEBANON.,
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press
For permission to reuse this article, contact Copyright Clearance Center.
Related articles from HighBeam Research:
|
Asset seizure approved for anti-Lebanon actsBRIEFLY: WASHINGTON
International Herald Tribune; 8/4/2007; 136 words;
With Lebanon teetering in crisis, President George W. Bush has issued an emergency order to allow the seizure of assets of anyone found to be working to undermine its democratic government, a move that could increase pressure on Syria and Iran for supporting anti-government elements there.It was
|
|
Lebanon and the hostages: the background and outlook
The Boston Globe; 8/14/1991; Adam Pertman, Globe Staff; 653 words;
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Across the dry, brown Anti-Lebanon mountain range from Damascus lies a small but fertile country fractured by 16 years of civil war, terrorism, foreign occupation ...
|
|
Lebanon
MapQuest.com; 9/16/1998; 85 words;
MapQuest.com 09-16-1998 Map of Lebanon Sur (Tyre) Al Batrun Al Hirmil Al Judaydah Al Labwah Amyun An Nabatiyah at Tahla Anti-Lebanon Mts. Ash Shuwayfat Baalbek Bayt ad Din Beirut Bekaa Valley Bint Jubayl Bsharri Buhayrat Qattinah El Beqaa GOLAN HEIGHTS ...
|
|
Mercedes memorial to the death of a 'martyr'
The Independent - London; 4/20/1997; Robert Fisk in Nabi Chit, eastern Lebanon; 488 words;
... come across it quite unexpectedly in the centre of this scruffy Shia Muslim village, its fields dusted with snow below the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. "The shrine of the martyr Sayed Hassan Moussawi," it says above a concrete arch, and just to the right ...
|
&type=1 "The People (London, England)")
|
Blair is at wedding of ex-aide.(News)
The People (London, England); 7/23/2006; 121 words;
... of government relations at 10 Downing Street. Adam, 47, is Sky News Political Editor. Mr Blair arrived on foot at St James's Church in Central London without wife Cherie. Anti-Lebanon war demonstrators outside could be heard chanting: Blair is a ...
|
|
Tectonics of the Pliocene Homs basalts (Syria) and implications for the Dead Sea Fault Zone activity
Journal of the Geological Society; 3/1/2005; Chorowicz, J; Dhont, D; Ammar, O; Rukieh, M; Bilal, A; 7015 words;
... associated with the transpressive structures of the Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon and Palmyrides Mountains. Further to the south, the N05E-striki ... clearly straight here, as shown by various geological maps, the DEM and satellite imagery. The palaeo-fault probably ... However, activity of the Roum fault and in the ...
|
|
The curious case of the zealous bounty hunter.(Brief Article)
Presbyterian Record; 4/1/2001; Siverns, Ted; 728 words;
... successful? Approaching Damascus from the coastal highway, you travel beside the Barada ( Cold ) River tumbling down from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. Soon you reach the summit of Mt. Kassioun with Damascus below. The city is on the edge of the desert and, though ...
|
|
THE LAST BATTLE OF HADADEZER
Journal of Biblical Literature; 7/1/2005; Irvine, Stuart A; 1838 words;
... location farther north, either in the Beqa Valley or in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. The Egyptian conquest list of Tuthmoses III ... leading from the southern end of the Beqa Valley through the Anti-Lebanon range to Damascus.26 It was probably here or nearby that ...
|
|
The sorrows of young Bashar
Jerusalem Post; 3/18/2005; Jerusalem Post Correspondent, DAMASCUS; 3669 words;
... Ministry herded reporters up to the anti-Lebanon mountains on Friday night for a look ... some of the most important American news media casually stated that he, too ... parts of the city, now along with the anti-Lebanon range, a permanent reminder of the other ... Assad-Lahoud talks last week, ...
|
|
|
Somber anniversary
Jerusalem Post; 2/14/2003; DAN GERSTENFELD; 2122 words;
... Tamir continues to firmly believe in the justification of the anti-Lebanon movement, Steinitz, who has since then abandoned his dovish ... Grunzweig was killed was one of the largest and most violent anti-Lebanon war protests. Participants called on the government to implement ...
|
|
Who owns the Shebaa Farms? Chronicle of a territorial dispute
The Middle East Journal; 10/1/2002; Kaufman, Asher; 7912 words;
... boundary during the Mandate years. Since 1920, maps located the area within Syria. However ... revisit their dusty archives and search for maps, deeds, and any other documents that could ... Israel used Lebanese and Syrian pre-1967 maps that clearly placed the farms within Syrian ...
|
|
Shelter or Hunting Camp? Accounting for the Presence of a Deeply Stratified Cave Site in the Syrian Steppe
Near Eastern Archaeology; 6/1/2006; Schroeder, Bruce; 4787 words;
... for 300 kilometers eastward from the eastern flanks of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in the Horns area passing north of Palmyra to the ... a number of caves and open sites in the Beqaa Valley and Anti-Lebanon Mountains near the border with Syria. After 5 seasons of ...
|
|
The 1941 invasion of Syria and Lebanon: the role of the local paramilitary.
Middle Eastern Studies; 7/1/1994; Bou-Nacklie, N.E.; 8340 words;
... intention of moving eastward towards Damascus through the Anti-Lebanon mountains gap opposite that city. Third, this thrust was ... Beyond that it was, by and large, a rout by the Allies. News of this Druze-Tcherkess 'collaboration' spread quickly ... parts of the Biqa `valley, between the Lebanon and the ...
|
|
Desert rocks as plant refugia in the Near East.
The Botanical Review; 4/1/1999; Danin, Avinoam; 27147 words;
... biblical subdivision as reflected in the maps of Eig et al. (1948) and Zohary (1966 ... desert boundary rather prominent. Soil maps of Israel are those by Dan and Raz (1970 ... below sea level. Mean annual temperature maps of Israel are presented by Rosenan and ...
|
|
|
France in Syria: the abolition of the Sharifian government, April-July 1920.
Middle Eastern Studies; 7/1/1993; Eldar, Dan; 7733 words;
... on the extremists in his government.(21) Millerand was satisfied with Faysal's answer and hastened to pass the good news to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate. Millerand tried to convince the committee that his government was ... in Zahla under the command of General Goybet were instructed to move towards the ...
|
See all results from premium newspaper and magazine articles, images, maps and more at HighBeam Research.
Related articles from newspapers, magazines and other sources:
|
|