Ain Abou Abdallah

Ain Abou Abdallah is a village in South Governorate, Lebanon. Ain Abou Abdallah is situated nearby to the village Qasmiye, as well as near Bourghliye.

Type: Village
Description: municipality in South Governorate, Lebanon
Also known as: “‘Ayn Abū ‘Abd Allāh”, “Aain Abou Abdallah”, “Aïn Abou Abdallah”, “Ain Abu Aabdalla”, and “Ain Abu Aabdallah”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Leontes Bridge and Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb.

Leontes Bridge

Ruins

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

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 north of Ain Abou Abdallah.

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 4 km northeast of Ain Abou Abdallah.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burj Rahal and Al-Aabbassiyah.