Ouâdi Abou el Assouad

Ouâdi Abou el Assouad is a wadi in South Governorate, Lebanon. Ouâdi Abou el Assouad is situated nearby to the locality El Mahmoûdîyé, as well as near Mazraat Nahhoûlé.

Places of Interest

Highlights include 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 4 km southeast of Ouâdi Abou el Assouad.

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 3½ km south of Ouâdi Abou el Assouad.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aadloun and Ansariyeh, Lebanon.

Aadloun

Town

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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 Ouâdi Abou el Assouad.

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 Ouâdi Abou el Assouad.

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 Ouâdi Abou el Assouad.

Ouâdi Abou el Assouad

Type: Wadi
Also known as: “Nahr Abou Assouad”, “Nahr Abu el Aswad”, “Nahr al Aswad”, “Ouadi Abou el Assouad”, “Wādī Abū al Aswad”, and “Wadi el Assouad”
Category: body of water
Location: South Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude

33.37147° or 33° 22′ 17″ north

Longitude

35.25144° or 35° 15′ 5″ east

Open location code

8G5Q97C2+HH

GeoNames ID

281003

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In Other Languages

“Ouâdi Abou el Assouad” goes by many names.

Arabic: “وادي أبو الأسود”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as El Mahmoûdîyé and Mazraat Nahhoûlé.

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