Qasmiye
Qasmiye is a village in South Governorate, Lebanon. Qasmiye is situated nearby to the village Ain Abou Abdallah, as well as near Bourghliye.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.
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 northeast of Qasmiye.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burj Rahal and Al-Aabbassiyah.
Burj Rahal
Village
Burj Rahal is a municipality in the Tyre District in South Lebanon. Burj Rahal is situated 3 km southeast of Qasmiye.
Al-Aabbassiyah
Town
Al-Aabbassiyah is a municipality in the Tyre District in South Lebanon. Al-Aabbassiyah is situated 4½ km southeast of Qasmiye.
Bedias
Village
Bedias, Bidias, is a municipality in the Tyre District in South Lebanon. Bedias is situated 5 km east of Qasmiye.
Qasmiye
- Type: Village
- Also known as: “Al Qāsimīyah”, “Qâsmiyé”, and “Qasmiyeh”
- Category: locality
- Location: South Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.32788° or 33° 19′ 40″ northLongitude
35.25226° or 35° 15′ 8″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
8G5Q87H2+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 13291526402OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
279169
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to French—“Qasmiye” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القاسمية”
- Arabic: “قاسمية”
- French: “Qasmiye”
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