El Bass Refugee Camp
Al-Buss camp – also transliterated Bass, Al-Bass, or El-Buss with the definite article spelled either al or el – is one of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, located in the Southern Lebanese city of Tyre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Social service facility
- Description: place in Lebanon
- Also known as: “Al-Buss refugee camp” and “El-Buss refugee camp”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ruins of Tyre Necropolis and Tyre Hippodrome.
Ruins of Tyre Necropolis
Ruins
Photo: Matze187, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The al-Bass necropolis is a Lebanese UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of the al-Bass archaeological site in the city of Tyre situated next to the el-Buss refugee camp. Ruins of Tyre Necropolis is situated 430 metres southeast of El Bass Refugee Camp.
Tyre Hippodrome
Archaeological site
Photo: Ibrahimamirnaeem, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tyre Hippodrome, located in the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, is an ancient sporting arena and UNESCO World Heritage site dating back to the second century AD. Tyre Hippodrome is situated 470 metres south of El Bass Refugee Camp.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tyre and Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain.
Tyre
Photo: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tyre is the fourth-largest city in Lebanon. It is particularly noteworthy for its stunning and clean beaches as well as some of the finest examples of Roman architecture in the world.
Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain
Village
Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain is a place abounding with immense fountains, with reservoirs and aqueducts 6 kilometers south of Tyre, and ca. 77 kilometers south of Beirut, in the South Governorate, in the municipality of Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain. Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain is situated 5 km south of El Bass Refugee Camp.
Al-Bazouriyah
Town
Al-Bazouriyah is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. Al-Bazouriyah is situated 6 km east of El Bass Refugee Camp.
El Bass Refugee Camp
- Categories: village/town/city in Lebanon and Palestinian refugee camp
- Location: South Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.27247° or 33° 16′ 21″ northLongitude
35.20866° or 35° 12′ 31″ eastOpen location code
8G5Q76C5+XFOpenStreetMap ID
way 194216142OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=social_facilityWikidata ID
Q11957207
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“El Bass Refugee Camp” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مخيم البص”
- Catalan: “camp de refugiats d’Al Bass”
- German: “Al-Bass Flüchtlingscamp”
- Hebrew: “אל-בס”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Bas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Bass”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Bas”
- Norwegian: “Al Bas”
- Persian: “اردوگاه البص”
- Persian: “اردوگاه پناهندگان البص”
- Russian: “Лагерь беженцев Эль-Басс”
- Spanish: “campo de refugiados de Al Bass”
- Spanish: “Campo de refugiados de Al Bass”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Roman triumphal arch and الكنيسة الإنجيلية الوطنية.
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