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Lebanon
Mount Lebanon

Byblos

Byblos, also known by its Arabic name of Jbeil, is an ancient Phoenician city located about 35 kilometers north of the capital in modern day . The city has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is a popular daytrip from the capital.
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  • Type: Town with 20,800 residents
  • Description: Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, a main Canaanite-Phoenician city
  • Also known as: “Bīblūs”, “Djébail”, “Geval”, “Ǧubayl”, “Gubla”, “Gval”, “Jbeil”, “Jebaïl”, “Jebeil”, “Jubayl”, and “Jubayl Bīblus”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Memory of Time and Wax Museum.

Museum
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The Byblos Fossil Museum is a museum in Byblos, . This museum contains fossil collections of sharks, eels, shrimps, squids, rays, coelacanthes and flying fish.

Museum
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The Byblos is a in Byblos, . It displays wax statues and life scenes from the Phoenician era to the modern times.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eddeh and Blat.

Village
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Edde or Eddé village is located 45 km north of , . It rises to an altitude of 210 metres of sea level and covers an area of 398 acres.

Village
is a municipality in the of , . It is a suburb of Byblos and is 40 kilometers north of . has an average elevation of 190 meters above sea level and a total land area of 683 hectares.

Village
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is a town in the of the , . It is located 4 km north of Byblos. Its inhabitants are predominantly Greek Orthodox and Maronite Christians. Its population is about 1,500. is situated 4½ km north of Byblos.

Byblos

Latitude
34.1237° or 34° 7′ 25″ north
Longitude
35.6494° or 35° 38′ 58″ east
Population
20,800
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
United Nations Location Code
LB BYL
Open location code
8G6Q4JFX+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4746570478
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
273203
Wiki­data ID
Q173532
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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”
  • 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: “Byblos”
  • 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”
  • 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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