Wavel
Wavel is a Palestinian refugee camp near the city of Baalbeck in Lebanon. It was originally a French army barrack, but in 1948 refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war found shelter there.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Refugee camp
- Description: human settlement and refugee camp in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Camp Wavel” and “Mukhayyam Wayval”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stone of the Pregnant Woman and Trilithon.
Stone of the Pregnant Woman
Monument
Photo: Freedom’s Falcon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Baalbek Stones are six massive Roman worked stone blocks in Baalbek, Lebanon, characterised by a megalithic gigantism unparallelled in antiquity. How the stones were moved from where they were quarried to their final locations is uncertain. Stone of the Pregnant Woman is situated 510 metres east of Wavel.
Trilithon
Photo: Heinz-Josef Lücking, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
A trilithon or trilith is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top. It is commonly used in the context of megalithic monuments. Trilithon is situated 1¼ km northeast of Wavel.
Temple of Bacchus
Ruins
The Temple of Bacchus is part of the Baalbek archaeological site, in Beqaa Valley region of Lebanon. The temple complex is considered an outstanding archaeological and artistic site of Imperial Roman Architecture and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. Temple of Bacchus is situated 1¼ km northeast of Wavel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Duris and Baalbek.
Duris
Village
Duris is a village located approximately 3 km. southwest of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. It is the site of a 13th-century Muslim shrine and a necropolis from the late Roman Imperial period that is currently undergoing archaeological investigation.
Baalbek
Baalbek بَعلبَك is one of the most spectacular archaeological sites in Lebanon and one of the country's UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Baalbeck or 'Heliopolis' as it was known is the site of great ancient temples built by the Phoenicians, the Romans, and other civilisations that have conquered the region and enjoyed the fertile soil of the Bekaa Valley.
Majdalun
Village
Majdaloun is a village in the Baalbek District, in Baalbek-Hermel, one of the governorates of Lebanon. Majdaloun is one of the eighty-three municipalities of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate and of 1,052 for the whole of Lebanon. Majdalun is situated 6 km west of Wavel.
Wavel
- Categories: human settlement and Palestinian refugee camp
- Location: Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Polish—“Wavel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مخيم ويفيل”
- Chinese: “瓦維爾”
- Chinese: “瓦维尔”
- Dutch: “Wavel”
- French: “Wavel”
- Irish: “Wavel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wavel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wavell”
- Norwegian: “Wavell”
- Polish: “Obóz Wavel”
- Polish: “Wavel”
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