Lebanon is located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea amid three continents Asia, Africa and Europe. This has given him an excellent location importance since ancient times, was and still is a window Middle East on the Mediterranean Sea and the door from which the Mediterranean civilizations to the Arab Middle East. It thus field economic and cultural interaction between the East and the Mediterranean world, and play the role of mediator between the two, so it has flourished in science and civilizations since ancient times and it has spread throughout the area stretching along the Mediterranean coast.
History proves that Lebanon had since ancient times many peoples Forum from neighboring regions and the Mediterranean Basin,
These peoples that settled it or passed it left her in the museum or civilizations effects shown on the existence and the most important archaeological areas that indicate the city of Baalbek, which is all archaeological area filled with treasures and Roman ruins and ancient Islamic. And on the coast, we find the historical city of Tyre, which is the capital of the ancient Phoenicians drove around all over the Mediterranean, as well as the city of Jbeil (Byblos) in the northern port.
The land of Lebanon is a coastal plain on the sea, narrow in the middle room in the north and south is surrounded by mountains to the east which make up what is known as a series Mount Lebanon and the highest peaks in the north summit Qurna black in the mountains of CMOS and height 3028 m which is crowned with snow throughout the year, followed by Summit tops penis appeared gutter. Descend from the mountains to the east toward the Bekaa Valley broad mountain chain that separates East from the western mountain range. And characterized by wide Bekaa Valley in the north to the narrows in the middle, and then expand southwards forming easy Marjayoun. In Lebanon, several rivers most famous of the Litani River, which flows from south Bekaa Valley southward along the 160 km (operating Zionist state today to exploit its water) as well as the Orontes River, which originates in the northern Bekaa Valley from the Golan Baalbek in a cave monk then heading north Vijtriq Syria and flows into the sea Mediterranean to the north of Antioch and a length of 570 km. And other rivers in Lebanon: the Zahrani River and the initial and the Damour River and Nahr Ibrahim, a small mostly feed on the Mediterranean coast.
The climate of Lebanon beautiful as it moderately nice summer over the mountains and hot on the coast (Note in Lebanon not just the mountain from the coast only a simple between 10 15 km) and is a prolific rain that does not fall only in the winter and cover snow most of the Lebanese mountains in addition to areas Interior in the Bekaa Valley is characterized by a distinctive winter tourist season for snow enthusiasts and skiing in the winter and the pool and enjoy the wonderful atmosphere in the summer.
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