Batroun

Batroun (Arabic: بَتْرُون Batrūn, ancient Botrys, is a coastal city in northern Lebanon and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is the capital city of Batroun District.
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  • Town with 45,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 13 metres (43 feet)
  • Description: human settlement in Lebanon
  • Also known as
    “Al Batrūn”
    “Batrūn”
    “Botrys”
    “Mint of Botrys”
    “Stance”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mussaylha Fort and Wujah Al Hajar.
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The Mseilha Fort is a historic fortification located… is situated 3½ km northeast of Batroun.
Hamat Air Base, formerly known as Pierre Gemayel… is situated 3½ km northeast of Batroun.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kfar Abida and Selaata.
Kfar Abida_Fadous, sometimes spelled Kfar…
is a village in the Batroun district of the in .
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, also known as Asmar Jbeil or Samar Jbeil… is situated 4½ km southeast of Batroun.

Batroun

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Latitude
34.2549° or 34° 15′ 18″ north
Longitude
35.6589° or 35° 39′ 32″ east
UN/LOCODE
LB BTO
Open location code
8G6Q7M35+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4746546642
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
280328
Wiki­data ID
Q3285145

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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Urdu—“Batroun” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βοτρύς”
  • Arabic: “البترون”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Բաթրուն”
  • Asturian: “Batroun”
  • Basque: “Batroun”
  • Belarusian: “Батрун”
  • Catalan: “Batrun”
  • Cebuano: “Batroûn”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەترۆن”
  • Chinese: “巴特倫”
  • Chinese: “拜特龍”
  • Dutch: “Batroun”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البترون”
  • Finnish: “Batroun”
  • French: “Batroun”
  • French: “Batroûn”
  • Galician: “Batrun”
  • Georgian: “ბატროუნი”
  • German: “Batrun”
  • Greek: “Μπατρούν”
  • Hebrew: “בתרון”
  • Hindi: “बतरून”
  • Irish: “Batroun”
  • Italian: “Batrun”
  • Japanese: “アル＝バトルーン”
  • Japanese: “バトラウン”
  • Japanese: “バトルーヌ”
  • Japanese: “バトルーン”
  • Kazakh: “Шашақгүл”
  • Korean: “바트룬”
  • Lithuanian: “Batrunas”
  • Maori: “e a perangi”
  • Maori: “sub-tribe”
  • Mazanderani: “البترون”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Batroun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Batroun”
  • Norwegian: “Batroun”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܛܪܘܢ”
  • Pampanga: “Batroun”
  • Persian: “البترون”
  • Persian: “بترون”
  • Polish: “Al-Batrun”
  • Polish: “Batrun”
  • Polish: “Botrys”
  • Portuguese: “Batroun”
  • Portuguese: “Batrum”
  • Russian: “Батрун”
  • Russian: “Эль-Батрун”
  • Serbian: “Батрун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Batrun”
  • Spanish: “Batroun”
  • Spanish: “Batrún”
  • Swedish: “Batroun”
  • Swedish: “Batroûn”
  • Tatar: “Батрун каласы”
  • Turkish: “Betrun”
  • Ukrainian: “Батрун”
  • Urdu: “بترون”

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