Town in the province of Mount Lebanon, away from Beiteddine district center 3 km, and Baabda district center about 47 km, and the capital, Beirut, 52 km. Elevations around 850 meters above sea level and has a population of about twenty thousand people.
The origin of the label to the Alaba in the first name, one of the BET Means the place or the house, while the second part was probably the root of the mind, so that means label House sensible or may mean Syriac BET-AGULIN Where many twists and turns.
Limits Bakalin towns: Hasrout and Anout Gharife, Ainbal from the south, and Deir al-Qamar and Beiteddine from the north, and the ignorance and Dorit Monastery of the West, and East Asamghanih.And can be accessed by Damour - Kfarhim - Dorit monastery, or Beirut -
Mideiraj - Beiteddine, or Jezzine - Alkhtarh. It is divided into several districts are: achmais , Alqchaya, Pedder tribes, appointed woodcutter, Kafr harvest of Cape buffalo, Cape bees, lane alwita, lawn and palm leaves.
Troy Ba'qaleen from Baroque spring and the village spring and spring kings and appointed grooves and appointed Hattab and Anj bee appointed and Asamghanih water in addition to artesian wells. And famous for the cultivation of olives, apples, figs, grapes, vegetables and fruit. Either industrial production there is nothing wrong with it, as there is in Ba'qaleen olive presses and sewing workshops and wool garments and a coefficient of iron and wax and manufacturing electrical wiring and pipes wooden furniture factories and sawmills Marble Stone. The embroideries Baaqlin of the leading traditional dementia in the town.
There in Ba'qaleen House mayor and five mayors and the Court to eliminate sectarian Druze sharia court and police station of the gendarmerie and the Post Office and distributor of the phone and an agricultural cooperative, in addition to a home for teachers and two primary schools official and three private schools and complementary mixed and secondary official, and a national library, three sports clubs and Mistosfin and women's associations and scout.
Climate and because of the magnificence and richness of the region pine forests abound in Ba'qaleen restaurants and parks.
Their effects:
** Galatasaray Ba'qaleen
** Qasr Al Hamada
* Church of archaeological
* Beer Fakhruddin and ancient basins
** Locality Bayader where he was meeting tribal princes concerned with the families of the country to hold the Shura
** Shrines and retreats and tombs
* Finally appointed estate archaeological printed Rshma in the past on the Lebanese paper cash from five and twenty pounds.
التسميات
Lebanon