Al-Kharayeb
Al-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.Photo: HusseinHijazy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: Lebanese local authority
- Also known as: “Al Kharā’ib”, “Al Kharayeb”, “Al Kharayib”, “Al Kharāyib”, “Al Khurayyib”, “El Kharayeb”, “El Kharâyeb”, and “Kharayeb (Sidon)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Az-Zrariyah and Bedias.
Az-Zrariyah
Village
Az-Zrariyah is a municipality in southern Lebanon, located in the Sidon District. It is home to about 20,000 people, over half of whom are emigrants to West Africa, Europe and the Americas. Az-Zrariyah is situated 3 km east of Al-Kharayeb.
Bedias
Village
Bedias, Bidias, is a municipality in the Tyre District in South Lebanon. Bedias is situated 3½ km south of Al-Kharayeb.
Burj Rahal
Village
Burj Rahal is a municipality in the Tyre District in South Lebanon. Burj Rahal is situated 4 km southwest of Al-Kharayeb.
Al-Kharayeb
- Categories: village/town/city in Lebanon, municipality of Lebanon, human settlement, and locality
- Location: South Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.34504° or 33° 20′ 42″ northLongitude
35.29978° or 35° 17′ 59″ eastElevation
215 metres (705 feet)Open location code
8G5Q87WX+2WOpenStreetMap ID
node 6090952552OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Al-Kharayeb” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الخرايب”
- Arabic: “خرايب”
- Catalan: “Kharayeb”
- Chinese: “卡拉耶布”
- Czech: “Harajb”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الخرايب”
- French: “Al Kharayeb”
- French: “Kharayeb (Saida)”
- French: “Kharayeb (Sidon)”
- French: “Kharayeb”
- French: “خرايب (صيدا)”
- German: “Kharayeb”
- Haitian: “Kharayeb (Sidon)”
- Haitian: “Kharayeb”
- Hebrew: “ח’ראייב”
- Italian: “Kharayeb”
- Italian: “Khrayeb”
- Persian: “الخرایب”
- Russian: “Хараиб”
- Spanish: “Kharayeb (Sidón)”
- Spanish: “Kharayeb”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Arzai and Matariyet el Choumar.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include مقبرة الزرارية and Qasimiya Bridge.
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