Rayaq
Rayaq - Haouch Hala, also romanized Rayak, is a Lebanese town in the Beqaa Governorate near the city of Zahlé. In the early 20th century and up to the 1975 outbreak of the civil war, it was Lebanon's most important railway center, where the 1.05-m Beirut–Damascus line met the standard-gauge line north to Baalbek, Homs, and Aleppo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: town in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Riyak” and “Riyāq”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rayak Air Base.
Rayak Air Base
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rayak Air Base is Lebanon's first air base and the place where the Lebanese Air Force was born on June 1, 1949. In the 1950s, the RAF sent its own instructors to help the Lebanese Airforce.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Temnine El Tehta and Niha.
Temnine El Tehta
Village
Temnine Et Tahta is a village located in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. Temnine El Tehta is situated 4 km northwest of Rayaq.
Niha
Village
Photo: Nmaluf, Public domain.
Niha is a village in the Bekaa Valley about 18 km north of Zahlé. It is famous for its Roman archeological ruins in the outskirts, and in particular two lower Roman temples that date back to the 1st century AD. Niha is situated 6 km northwest of Rayaq.
Temnin el-Foka
Village
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Temnin el-Foka 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. Temnin el-Foka is situated 7 km northwest of Rayaq.
Rayaq
- Categories: town, archaeological site, municipality of Lebanon, and locality
- Location: Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.8522° or 33° 51′ 8″ northLongitude
36.01419° or 36° 0′ 51″ eastElevation
928 metres (3,045 feet)Open location code
8G5RV227+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 6127326597OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
Discover Rayaq from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Rayaq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رياق”
- Asturian: “Rayak”
- Bulgarian: “Раяк”
- Catalan: “Rayak”
- Cebuano: “Rayak”
- Chinese: “里亞格”
- Dutch: “Rayak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رياق”
- French: “Rayak”
- German: “Rayak”
- Hebrew: “ריאק”
- Italian: “Rayak”
- Japanese: “リヤーク”
- Mazanderani: “ریاق”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rayak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riyaq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riyaq”
- Norwegian: “Riyaq”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rayak”
- Persian: “ریاق، لبنان”
- Persian: “ریاق”
- Polish: “Rijak”
- Russian: “Райяк”
- Russian: “Рияк”
- Serbian: “Рајак”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rayak”
- Swedish: “Rayak”
- Ukrainian: “Райяк”
- Ukrainian: “Раяк”
- “Rayak”
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