El Mahmoûdîyé

El Mahmoûdîyé is a locality in South Governorate, Lebanon. El Mahmoûdîyé is situated nearby to the locality Mazraat ej Joûdîyé, as well as near Mazraat Kfar Badda.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Leontes Bridge and Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb.

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 2½ km south of El Mahmoûdîyé.

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 El Mahmoûdîyé.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kharayeb and Aadloun.

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 El Mahmoûdîyé.

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 5 km northeast of El Mahmoûdîyé.

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 6 km northeast of El Mahmoûdîyé.

El Mahmoûdîyé

Type: Locality
Also known as: “Al Maḩmūdīyah”, “El Mahmoudiye”, and “El Mahmoudîyé”
Location: South Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude

33.36406° or 33° 21′ 51″ north

Longitude

35.25104° or 35° 15′ 4″ east

Elevation

9 metres (30 feet)

Open location code

8G5Q9772+JC

GeoNames ID

6272111

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In Other Languages

“El Mahmoûdîyé” goes by many names.

Arabic: “المحمودية”

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Localities in the Area

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