Mechwar Bel Wadi: Ras Baalbeck, Brissa, Hermel, Al Qaa, Dinner in Baalbeck
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مشوار بالوادي: رأس بعلبك، بريصا، الهرمل، القاع، عشاء في بعلبك
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Ras Baalbek is 500 metres west of a Neolithic rock shelter called Ras Baalbek.
To the east there are ruins that are alleged to be the remains of a Roman aqueduct. Inhabitants of the village have confirmed it was once called "Connaya," suggesting a link to the ancient settlement of Conna, mentioned in the work of Antonius. Notable features include the monastery of "Our Lady of Ras Baalbek" (Deir Saidat arRas) and two Byzantine churches. One church is in the centre of the village and the other lies by the Roman aqueduct.
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Ras Baalbek's population as being predominantly Catholic Christian.
In 2014, the war with ISIS in the nearby village of Arsal resulted in the residents of Ras Baalbek forming a militia to protect the village. The militias were allied to the Lebanese Armed Forces. In September 2016 the Lebanese Army attacked Islamic State positions near Ras Baalbek.
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Brissa: The inscriptions are written in forms of columns from top to bottom (a scetch of these columns can be found in the pictures at the end of the article). For the most part of the inscriptions, it speaks about Nebuchadnezzar’s military campaigns, religious processions, and public works in Babylon.
Mentioning Lebanon in the inscriptions reflect the intentions of Nebuchadnezzar’s conquest – the exploitation of the natural resources and the building of roads to gain ready access to them.
The king also mixes his political aims with a “concern for the welfare” of the locals.
Here is the part where Lebanon is mostly mentioned in the reliefs:
“On that day, Lebanon, the mountain of cedars, the luxuriant forest of Marduk (the patron god of Babylon) of sweet smell, whose excellent cedars whichnot …. for the cultic place of another god had not been taken for the (palace) of another king. I cut (with my pure hands) and – Marduk the king had called me (to bring this into effect) – (cedars) which were lift for a palace of a ruler, a king … heaven and earth, (Lebanon) where a foreign enemy had exercised rulership, and whose yield (the enemy) had taken away by force, so its people had fled, had taken refuge far away.
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https://wanderleb.com/2020/07/28/bris...
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Qaa, El Qaa, Al Qaa, Qaa Baalbek or Masharih alQaa is a town in BaalbekHermel Governorate, Lebanon. A 2010 report stated that population of the settlement was 500, all Lebanese Maronites
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