Byblos
Byblos, also known by its Arabic name of Jbeil, is an ancient Phoenician city located about 35 kilometers north of the capital Beirut in modern day Lebanon. The city has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is a popular daytrip from the capital.
- Town with about 20,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
- Description: Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, a main Canaanite-Phoenician city
- Also known as“Bīblūs”“Byblus”“Djébail”“Geval”“Ǧubayl”“Gubla”“Gval”“Jbeil”“Jebaïl”“Jebeil”“Jubayl”“Jubayl Bīblus”“Mint of Byblus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Memory of Time and Wax Museum.
Memory of Time
The Byblos Fossil Museum is a museum in Byblos, Lebanon.
Wax Museum
The Byblos Wax Museum is a wax museum in Byblos, Lebanon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eddeh and Blatt.
Blatt
Village
Blat is a municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon.
Halat
Town
Halat is a municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon. Halat is situated 4½ km south of Byblos.
Byblos
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Latitude
34.1237° or 34° 7′ 25″ north
Longitude
35.6494° or 35° 38′ 58″ east
UN/LOCODE
LB BYL
Open location code
8G6Q4JFX+FP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Byblos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bublos”
- Amharic: “ቢብሎስ”
- Amharic: “ጌባል”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βύβλος”
- Arabic: “بيبلوس”
- Arabic: “جبيل بيبلوس”
- Arabic: “جبيل”
- Armenian: “Բիբլ”
- Armenian: “Բիբլոս”
- Asturian: “Biblos”
- Asturian: “Gubla”
- Azerbaijani: “Bibl”
- Azerbaijani: “Cübeyl”
- Basque: “Biblos”
- Belarusian: “Бібл”
- Bengali: “জুবাইল”
- Bengali: “ব্যাবলস”
- Bosnian: “Biblos”
- Breton: “Byblos”
- Bulgarian: “Библ”
- Bulgarian: “Библос (Biblos)”
- Bulgarian: “Библос”
- Bulgarian: “Бибъл”
- Bulgarian: “Джубейла”
- Burmese: “ဘေးဘလော့စ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Biblos”
- Catalan: “Byblos”
- Catalan: “Giblah”
- Cebuano: “Jbaïl”
- Chinese: “朱拜勒”
- Chinese: “比布魯斯”
- Chinese: “比布鲁斯”
- Croatian: “Biblos”
- Croatian: “Byblos”
- Czech: “Byblos”
- Czech: “Džubajl”
- Czech: “Gibelet”
- Danish: “Byblos”
- Dutch: “Byblos”
- Dutch: “Gubla”
- Egyptian (Ancient): “Kypt (Keben)” (historical)
- Egyptian (Ancient): “Kypt (Kepen)” (historical)
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبيل”
- Esperanto: “Biblos”
- Finnish: “Byblos”
- French: “Byblos”
- French: “Gibelet”
- French: “Jbail”
- French: “Jbeil”
- French: “Jebail”
- Galician: “Biblos”
- Galician: “Gubla”
- Georgian: “ბიბლოსი”
- Georgian: “გებალი”
- German: “Biblos”
- German: “Býblos”
- German: “Dschubail”
- German: “Gubal”
- German: “Gubla”
- Greek: “Βύβλος”
- Hebrew: “בובלוס”
- Hebrew: “ביבלוס”
- Hebrew: “ג’בייל”
- Hebrew: “ג’ביל”
- Hebrew: “ג’ובייל”
- Hebrew: “ג’וביל”
- Hebrew: “גבל הקדושה”
- Hebrew: “גבל קדשת”
- Hebrew: “גבל”
- Hebrew: “גובלה”
- Hebrew: “כבן”
- Hebrew: “כבני”
- Hebrew: “כפן”
- Hindi: “गिबाल”
- Hindi: “जुबैल”
- Hindi: “बिब्लोस”
- Hungarian: “Büblosz”
- Indonesian: “Jubail, Lebanon”
- Indonesian: “Jubail”
- Irish: “Byblos”
- Italian: “Biblo”
- Italian: “Byblos”
- Italian: “Gibelletto”
- Italian: “Gibello”
- Italian: “Jbayl”
- Italian: “Jbeil”
- Japanese: “ゲバル”
- Japanese: “ジュバイル”
- Japanese: “ビブロス”
- Japanese: “ビュブロス”
- Korean: “뷔블로스”
- Korean: “비블로스”
- Latin: “Byblus”
- Latvian: “Bibla”
- Lithuanian: “Biblas”
- Lithuanian: “Džubailis”
- Low German: “Byblos”
- Low German: “Djubail”
- Macedonian: “Библос”
- Macedonian: “Гевла”
- Mainfränkisch: “Byblos”
- Mainfränkisch: “Dchubail”
- Malagasy: “Biblôsy”
- Malay: “Byblos”
- Malayalam: “ബിബ്ലസ്”
- Maltese: “Byblos”
- Mazanderani: “جبیل”
- Nepali: “बाइब्लोस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Byblos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jbeil”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byblos”
- Norwegian: “Jbeil”
- Persian: “جبیل”
- Phoenician: “Gebal” (historical)
- Phoenician: “Gubla” (historical)
- Polish: “Byblos”
- Polish: “Dżubajl”
- Polish: “Gubal”
- Portuguese: “Biblos”
- Romanian: “Byblos”
- Russian: “Библ”
- Russian: “Библос”
- Russian: “Гебал”
- Russian: “Губл”
- Russian: “Джубайль”
- Scots: “Byblos”
- Serbian: “Biblos”
- Serbian: “Βύβλος”
- Serbian: “Библос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Biblos”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Byblos”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Džbeil”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jbeil”
- Silesian: “Byblos”
- Silesian: “Gubla”
- Slovak: “Byblos”
- Slovenian: “Biblos”
- Slovenian: “Byblos”
- Slovenian: “Džubail”
- Slovenian: “Džubajl”
- Slovenian: “Jbail”
- Slovenian: “Jbeil”
- Slovenian: “Žbeil”
- Slovenian: “Žbejl”
- South Azerbaijani: “جبیل”
- Spanish: “Biblos”
- Spanish: “Byblo”
- Spanish: “Byblos”
- Spanish: “Djebail”
- Spanish: “Gebal”
- Swedish: “Byblos”
- Swedish: “Gebal”
- Swedish: “Gubla”
- Swedish: “Jbail”
- Tagalog: “Byblos”
- Tagalog: “Gubla”
- Tajik: “Ҷубайл”
- Tamil: “பைப்லோஸ்”
- Tatar: “Библ каласы”
- Thai: “บิบลอส”
- Turkish: “Biblos”
- Turkish: “Cübeyl”
- Turkish: “Gubla”
- Uighur: “جۇبەيل”
- Ukrainian: “Бібл”
- Ukrainian: “Біблос”
- Ukrainian: “Гебал”
- Ukrainian: “Джубейль”
- Urdu: “جبیل”
- Uzbek: “Jubayl”
- Vietnamese: “Byblos”
- Vietnamese: “Gubla”
- Waray (Philippines): “Byblos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gubla”
- Welsh: “Biblos”
- Welsh: “Byblos”
- Welsh: “Jbeil”
- Western Armenian: “Պիպլոս-Ժըպէյլ”
- Western Armenian: “Պիպլոս”
- Western Panjabi: “جبیل”
- Wu Chinese: “朱拜勒”
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