Baalbek
Baalbek بَعلبَك is one of the most spectacular archaeological sites in Lebanon 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Saadsaidi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 82,600 residents
- Description: city in Baalbek-Hermel, Lebanon
- Also known as: “Ba‘albak”, “Ba‘labak”, “Baalbec”, “Baalbeck”, “Balbec”, and “Heliopolis”
- Historically known as: “Héliopolis”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Trilithon and Temple of Bacchus.
Trilithon
Photo: Heinz-Josef Lücking, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
A trilithon or trilith is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top. It is commonly used in the context of megalithic monuments.
Temple of Bacchus
Ruins
The Temple of Bacchus is part of the Baalbek archaeological site, in Beqaa Valley region of Lebanon. The temple complex is considered an outstanding archaeological and artistic site of Imperial Roman Architecture and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.
Temple of Jupiter
Ruins
Photo: Cksaad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Temple of Jupiter is a colossal Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon. It is the largest of the Roman world after the Temple of Venus and Roma in Rome. It is unknown who commissioned or designed the temple, nor exactly when it was constructed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Duris.
Duris
Village
Duris is a village located approximately 3 km. southwest of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. It is the site of a 13th-century Muslim shrine and a necropolis from the late Roman Imperial period that is currently undergoing archaeological investigation.
Baalbek
- Categories: archaeological site, ancient city, and locality
- Location: Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Bekaa, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
34.0097° or 34° 0′ 35″ northLongitude
36.2117° or 36° 12′ 42″ eastPopulation
82,600Elevation
1,183 metres (3,881 feet)United Nations Location Code
LB AAKOpen location code
8G6R2656+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 428339508OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Baalbek” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بعلبك”
- Arabic: “مدينة الشمس”
- Arabic: “هياكل بعلبك”
- Arabic: “هيليوبوليس”
- Armenian: “Բաալբեկ”
- Armenian: “Բաալբեկյան տեռաս”
- Armenian: “Հելիուպոլիս”
- Asturian: “Baalbek”
- Azerbaijani: “Bəəlbək”
- Basque: “Baalbek”
- Belarusian: “Баальбек”
- Bengali: “বালবেক”
- Bengali: “বালাবেক”
- Bulgarian: “Баалбек”
- Burmese: “ဘားလ်ဘက်ခ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Baalbeck”
- Catalan: “Baalbek-Deir El-Ahmar”
- Catalan: “Baalbek”
- Catalan: “Balalbakk”
- Catalan: “Heliòpolis de Síria”
- Cebuano: “Baalbek”
- Chinese: “巴勒貝克”
- Chinese: “巴勒贝克”
- Croatian: “Baalbek”
- Czech: “Baalbek”
- Danish: “Baalbek”
- Dutch: “Baalbeck”
- Dutch: “Baalbek”
- Dutch: “Baälbek”
- Dutch: “Balabakk”
- Dutch: “Heliopolis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بعلبك”
- Esperanto: “Baalbek”
- Estonian: “Ba‘labakk”
- Estonian: “Baalbek”
- Finnish: “Baalbek”
- Finnish: “Balabbak”
- French: “Baalbek”
- Galician: “Baalbek”
- Georgian: “ბაალბექი”
- German: “Baalbek”
- Greek: “Μπάαλμπεκ”
- Hebrew: “בעל בק”
- Hebrew: “בעל-בק”
- Hebrew: “בעלבכ”
- Hebrew: “בעלבק”
- Hebrew: “הליופוליס”
- Hindi: “बाल्बेक”
- Hungarian: “Baalbek”
- Indonesian: “Baalbek”
- Italian: “Ba’albak”
- Italian: “Baalbeck”
- Italian: “Baalbek”
- Italian: “Balbeck”
- Japanese: “バールベック”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Baalbek”
- Kazakh: “Баалбек”
- Kazakh: “Баальбек”
- Kazakh: “Бағлабек”
- Kazakh: “Бағлбек”
- Kazakh: “Гелиополис”
- Kazakh: “Гелиополь”
- Kazakh: “Һелиополис”
- Kirghiz: “Баальбек”
- Korean: “바알베크”
- Korean: “바알벡”
- Latin: “Heliopolis”
- Latvian: “Baalbeka”
- Lithuanian: “Baalbekas”
- Macedonian: “Балбек”
- Malay: “Baalbek”
- Malayalam: “ബാൽബെക്ക്”
- Maltese: “Baalbec”
- Maltese: “Baalbek”
- Maltese: “Balbec”
- Maltese: “Heliopolis”
- Mazanderani: “بعلبک”
- Mingrelian: “ბაალბექი”
- Moksha: “Баалбэк”
- Nepali: “बालबेक”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baalbek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balbek”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baalbek”
- Norwegian: “Baalbek”
- Persian: “بالبیک، لبنان”
- Persian: “بعلبک”
- Polish: “Ba’labakk”
- Polish: “Baalbek”
- Polish: “Balabakk”
- Portuguese: “Baalbeck”
- Portuguese: “Baalbek”
- Portuguese: “Heliópolis”
- Pushto: “بالبېک”
- Romanian: “Baalbek”
- Russian: “Баалат”
- Russian: “Баалбек”
- Russian: “Баальбек”
- Russian: “Баальбекская веранда”
- Russian: “Бальбек”
- Scots: “Baalbek”
- Serbian: “Baalbek”
- Serbian: “Баалбек”
- Serbian: “Балбек”
- Serbian: “بعلبك”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Baalbek”
- Slovak: “Baalbek”
- Slovenian: “Baalbek”
- Spanish: “Baalbek”
- Spanish: “Heliopolis”
- Spanish: “Heliópolis”
- Swahili: “Baalbek”
- Swedish: “Baalbek”
- Tajik: “Баълабак”
- Tamil: “பால்பெக்”
- Tatar: “Баальбек борынгы каласы”
- Tatar: “Гелиополис”
- Thai: “บะอ์ละบักก์”
- Turkish: “Baalbek”
- Turkish: “Balebek”
- Uighur: “بەئلەبەك”
- Ukrainian: “Баальбек”
- Urdu: “بعلبک”
- 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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