Baalbek

Baalbek بَعلبَك is one of the most spectacular archaeological sites in and one of the country's UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Baalbeck or 'Heliopolis' as it was known is the site of great ancient temples built by the Phoenicians, the Romans, and other civilisations that have conquered the region and enjoyed the fertile soil of the Bekaa Valley.
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  • Type: City with 82,600 residents
  • Description: city in Baalbek-Hermel, Lebanon
  • Also known as: “Ba‘albak”, “Ba’albak”, “Ba‘labak”, “Ba’labakk”, “Baalbec”, “Baälbek”, “Baalbek-Deir El-Ahmar”, “Balabakk”, “Balabbak”, “Balalbakk”, “Balbec”, “Balbeck”, “Balbek”, “Heliópolis”, “Heliòpolis de Síria”, “Heliopolis in Phoenicia”, “Heliopolis Syriaca”, “Mint of Heliopolis”, “Баалат”, “Баальбекская веранда”, “Бағлбек”, “Бальбек”, “Гелиополис”, “Гелиополь”, “Һелиополис”, “Բաալբեկյան տեռաս”, “Հելիուպոլիս”, “בעל בק”, “בעל-בק”, “בעלבק”, “הליופוליס”, “بالبیک، لبنان”, “مدينة الشمس”, “هياكل بعلبك”, “هيليوبوليس”, and “바알벡”
  • Historically known as: “Héliopolis”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Trilithon and Temple of Bacchus.

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A or trilith is a structure consisting…

Ruins
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The is part of the Baalbek archaeological site, in region of .

Ruins
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The is a colossal Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Duris.

Village
, also Dûris, formally Doris and also known…

Baalbek

Latitude
34.0097° or 34° 0′ 35″ north
Longitude
36.2117° or 36° 12′ 42″ east
Population
82,600
Elevation
1,183 metres (3,881 feet)
UN/LOCODE
LB AAK
Open location code
8G6R2656+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 428339508
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
277130
Wiki­data ID
Q178835
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Baalbek” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ባአልቤክ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἡλιούπολις”
  • Arabic: “بعلبك”
  • Armenian: “Բաալբեկ”
  • Asturian: “Baalbek”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəəlbək”
  • Basque: “Baalbek”
  • Belarusian: “Баальбек”
  • Bengali: “বাআলবেক”
  • Bengali: “বালবেক”
  • Bengali: “বালাবেক”
  • Bulgarian: “Баалбек”
  • Burmese: “ဘားလ်ဘက်ခ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Baalbek”
  • Cebuano: “Baalbek”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەعلبەک”
  • Chinese: “巴勒貝克”
  • Chinese: “巴勒贝克”
  • Croatian: “Baalbek”
  • Czech: “Baalbek”
  • Danish: “Baalbek”
  • Dutch: “Baalbek”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بعلبك”
  • Esperanto: “Baalbek”
  • Estonian: “Ba‘labakk”
  • Finnish: “Baalbek”
  • French: “Baalbek”
  • Galician: “Baalbek”
  • Georgian: “ბაალბექი”
  • German: “Baalbek”
  • Greek: “Μπάαλμπεκ”
  • Hausa: “Baalbek”
  • Hebrew: “בעלבכ”
  • Hindi: “बालबेक”
  • Hindi: “बाल्बेक”
  • Hungarian: “Baalbek”
  • Indonesian: “Baalbek”
  • Italian: “Baalbek”
  • Japanese: “バールベック”
  • Javanese: “Baalbek”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Baalbek”
  • Kazakh: “Бағлабек”
  • Kirghiz: “Баальбек”
  • Korean: “바알베크”
  • Latin: “Heliopolis”
  • Latvian: “Baalbeka”
  • Lithuanian: “Baalbekas”
  • Macedonian: “Балбек”
  • Malay: “Baalbek”
  • Malayalam: “ബാൽബെക്ക്”
  • Maltese: “Baalbek”
  • Mazanderani: “بعلبک”
  • Mingrelian: “ბაალბექი”
  • Moksha: “Баалбэк”
  • Nepali: “बालबेक”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baalbek”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baalbek”
  • Norwegian: “Baalbek”
  • Oromo: “Baalbek”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਲਬੇਕ”
  • Persian: “بعلبک”
  • Polish: “Baalbek”
  • Portuguese: “Baalbeck”
  • Portuguese: “Baalbek”
  • Pushto: “بالبېک”
  • Pushto: “بعلبك”
  • Romanian: “Baalbek”
  • Russian: “Баальбек”
  • Scots: “Baalbek”
  • Serbian: “Baalbek”
  • Serbian: “Баалбек”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baalbek”
  • Silesian: “Baalbek”
  • Slovak: “Baalbek”
  • Slovenian: “Baalbek”
  • Somali: “Baalbek”
  • Spanish: “Baalbek”
  • Swahili: “Baalbek”
  • Swedish: “Baalbek”
  • Tajik: “Баальбек”
  • Tajik: “Баълабак”
  • Tamil: “பால்பெக்”
  • Tatar: “Баальбек борынгы каласы”
  • Tatar: “Баальбек”
  • Thai: “บะอ์ละบักก์”
  • Turkish: “Baalbek”
  • Turkish: “Balebek”
  • Uighur: “بەئلەبەك”
  • Ukrainian: “Баальбек”
  • Urdu: “بعلبک”
  • Uzbek: “Baalbek”
  • Uzbek: “Baʼlabak”
  • Vietnamese: “Baalbek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baalbek”
  • Western Armenian: “Պաալպէք”
  • Western Frisian: “Baalbek”
  • Western Panjabi: “بعلبک”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴勒贝克”

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