The ancient city of Anjar, located 85 kilometers to the east of Beirut as a model of what it was major commercial stations are talking about ancient and medieval history. Have been set up close to one of the most important sources or the eyes of the Litani River in a great location on a map of the roads that were making their spots in the olden times and argument.
A site Anjar master node then meets the ways in which they reach the northern areas of northern Syria Palestine and the one that was up the coast Damascus Bgoth. Has contributed to prosperity in ancient times, intermediate, and still is, the presence of eye explode at the foothills of the mountains of eastern Lebanon, an eye that gave the city its present name. Has launched on that eye name "Eye on" Relative to the "on", an old fort mentioned in the days of the rule of the successors of Alexander the Great, ie within the so-called era Almtagriq or "Alhlenci".
Although Conveniently, Anjar differ fundamentally from other sites and other ancient cities in Lebanon.Unlike Tyre and Sidon, Beirut and Jbeil or Tripoli, Baalbek, which witnessed sequence historically sustained since its inception until today, successive where eras and cultures is unparalleled, the Anjar look like facility transient did not live more than a few tens of years in the early eighth century AD.
Except Baalbek Archaeological Grand Mosque, which was built in the same period, the Anjar site constitutes the only Lebanese construction dates back to the Umayyad period, that era thriving in the history of Arab civilization.
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