Kherbet Dahr el Khâne

Kherbet Dahr el Khâne is a cultivated area in South Governorate, Lebanon. Kherbet Dahr el Khâne is situated near the locality El Mahmoûdîyé, as well as near Mazraat Kfar Badda.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb and Leontes Bridge.

Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb

Archaeological site

The Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb is a historic temple in the hinterland of Tyre, Southern Lebanon, that was excavated in three stages. In 1946, Maurice Chehab, head of Lebanon's Directorate General of Antiquities, led the first mission that revealed a Hellenistic period temple and thousands of clay figurines dating from the sixth-to-first centuries BC. Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb is situated 3½ km southeast of Kherbet Dahr el Khâne.

Leontes Bridge

Ruins

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The Leontes Bridge is a ruined Roman bridge in Lebanon; it crossed the Litani River in the vicinity of Nahr Abou Assouad, 10 km north of Tyre. The bridge, which is dated to the 3rd or 4th century AD, featured a comparatively flat arch with a span-to-rise ratio of 3.1 to 1. Leontes Bridge is situated 3 km south of Kherbet Dahr el Khâne.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aadloun and Kharayeb.

Aadloun

Town

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Aadloun, Adloun or Adlun is a coastal municipality in South Lebanon, 17 kilometres south of Sidon famous for its cultivation of watermelons. It is also the site of a Phoenician necropolis and prehistoric caves where four archaeological sites have been discovered and dated to the Stone Age. Aadloun is situated 4½ km northeast of Kherbet Dahr el Khâne.

Kharayeb

Village

Photo: HusseinHijazy, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kharayeb is a historic municipality in the Sidon District in the South Governorate, Lebanon. The town is 77 km south of Beirut, and stands at an average altitude of 190 m above sea level. Kharayeb is situated 5 km southeast of Kherbet Dahr el Khâne.

Ansariyeh, Lebanon

Village

Photo: AbouChahine, Public domain.

Ansariyeh, Ansariyah, or Insariye is a municipality in South Governorate in Lebanon, 62 km from Beirut and 20 km south of Sidon. The area is 7.35 km² and is situated near the sea facing it from an altitude of 144 m. Ansariyeh, Lebanon is situated 5 km northeast of Kherbet Dahr el Khâne.

Kherbet Dahr el Khâne

Type: Cultivated area
Also known as: “Kherbet Dahr el Khane” and “Khirbat Ḑahr al Khān”
Location: South Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude

33.36778° or 33° 22′ 4″ north

Longitude

35.25444° or 35° 15′ 16″ east

Elevation

10 metres (33 feet)

Open location code

8G5Q9793+4Q

GeoNames ID

272395

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In Other Languages

“Kherbet Dahr el Khâne” goes by many names.

Arabic: “خربة ضهر الخان”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: El Mahmoûdîyé and Mazraat Kfar Badda.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Râs Mînet Abou Zeïd and Jabal Aalâmé.

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Worth a closer look: Beirut and Tyre.

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