🏛️ Anjar

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Anjar, also known as Hawsh Mousa, is a town of Lebanon, near the Syrian border, located in the Bekaa Valley. The population is 2,400, consisting almost entirely of Armenians. The total area is about twenty square kilometers. Since 1984, the ruins of the Umayyad settlement of Anjar have been recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

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Anjar is a cultural World Heritage site in Lebanon, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Anjar was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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City of Tyre · Byblos · Ruins of Baalbek (Heliopolis) · Ouadi Qadisha (Holy Valley) · Tyre · Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab) · Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli · Mount Amel Castles.

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