Batroun
Batroun (Arabic: ٱلْبَتْرُون al-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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 45,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Al Batrūn”, “Batrūn”, and “Botrys”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mussaylha Fort and Wujah Al Hajar.
Mussaylha Fort
Photo: بانزو, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mseilha Fort is a historic fortification located in Northern Lebanon, strategically positioned on the right bank of the Al-Jaouz River, in Hamat, approximately 2.5 kilometers northeast of the city of Batroun in North Lebanon. Mussaylha Fort is situated 3½ km northeast of Batroun.
Wujah Al Hajar
Aerodrome
Hamat Air Base, formerly known as Pierre Gemayel International Airport, is a Lebanese Air Force base in Hamat, Lebanon. It was built in the mid-1970s. The airport was however never used for civilian purposes. Wujah Al Hajar is situated 3½ km northeast of Batroun.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kfar Abida and Selaata.
Kfar Abida
Town
Kfar Abida, sometimes spelled Kfar Aabida or Kfaraabida, is a village located 2 kilometres south of Batroun in the Batroun District of the North Governorate in Lebanon.
Selaata
Village
Selaata is a village in the Batroun district of the North Lebanon governorate in Lebanon. The town is approximately 45 km north of Beirut and approximately 3 km north of Batroun.
Smar Jbeil
Village
Photo: Salios33, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Smar Jbeil, also known as Asmar Jbeil or Samar Jbeil, is a village located in the Batroun District in the North Governorate of Lebanon. It is located on a hill facing the Mediterranean Sea at 500 m elevation. It is one of the oldest villages in Lebanon. Smar Jbeil is situated 4½ km southeast of Batroun.
Batroun
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: North Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.2549° or 34° 15′ 18″ northLongitude
35.6589° or 35° 39′ 32″ eastPopulation
45,000Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)United Nations Location Code
LB BTOOpen location code
8G6Q7M35+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 4746546642OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Ukrainian—“Batroun” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βοτρύς”
- Arabic: “البترون”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Բաթրուն”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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”
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