ʻAnjar (Lebanon)
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
אנג'אר (לבנון)
Name (Latin)
ʻAnjar (Lebanon)
Other forms of name
Aynchar (Lebanon)
Ḩawsh Musá (Lebanon)
Haouch Moussa (Lebanon)
Hansh Mousa (Lebanon)
Aanjar (Lebanon)
Coordinates
35.92972222 35.92972222 33.72583333 33.72583333 (gooearth )
E0355552 E0355552 N0334340 N0334340 (geonames )
Associated country
Lebanon
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Geonames WWW site, Jan. 28, 2003:(ʻAnjar: PPL 33p0s43'33"N, 35p0s55'47"E ; variants: Ḩawsh Musá, Haouch Moussa, Hansh Mousa, Aanjar)
- Musaler Anjar WWW site, Jan. 28, 2003:(Anjar, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon: settled by Armenians from the Musa Dagh region of Turkey in 1939)
- Musa leran ew Aynchari tohmik chasher, 2001:t.p. (Aynchari ... )
Wikipedia description:
Anjar (meaning "unresolved or running river"); Arabic: عنجر / ALA-LC: ‘Anjar; also known as Hawsh Mousa (Arabic: حوش موسى / Ḥawsh Mūsá), 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 (7.7 square miles). Since 1984, the ruins of the Umayyad settlement of Anjar have been recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
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