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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningBaalbekFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchOverview of Baalbek in the late 19th centuryCoordinates: 34°00?22?N, 36°12?31?EBaalbek (Arabic: ÈÚáÈßý) is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 3,850 ft (1,170 m), situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed but monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. It is located at 34°00?22?N, 36°12?31?E about 200 km east of Beirut.Contents1 History1.1 Heliopolis, the City of the Sun1.2 Early Islamic period1.3 Ottoman period1.4 Israel-Lebanon conflict2 External links3 References[edit]History19th century Bible archaeologists wanted to connect Baalbek to the Baalgad mentioned in Joshua 11:17, but the assertion has not been taken up in modern times. In fact, this minor Phoenician city, named for the Lord (Baal) of the Beqaa valley lacked enough commercial or strategic importance to rate a mention in Assyrian or Egyptian records so far uncovered, according to Hélène Sader, professor of archaeology at the American University of Beirut. Nevertheless, it must have been the site of an oracle from earliest times, for oracles are not lightly founded. It retained its religious function during Roman times, when the sanctuary of the Heliopolitan Jupiter-Baal was a pilgrimage site. Trajans biographer records that the Emperor consulted the oracle there. Trajan inquired of the Heliopolitan Jupiter whether he would return alive from his wars against the Parthians. In reply, the god presented him with a vine shoot cut into pieces. Theodosius Macrobius, a Latin grammarian of the 5th century AD, mentioned Zeus Heliopolitanus and the temple, a place of oracular divination.The city Trajan was visiting was known as Heliopolis during the Hellenistic and Roman times. Baalbek, with its colossal structures, is one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee, UNESCO reported in making Baalbek a World Heritage Site in 1984. When the Committee inscribed the site, it expressed the wish that the protected area include the entire town within the Arab walls, as well as the south-western extramural quarter between Bastan-al-Khan, the Roman site and the Mameluk mosque of Ras-al-Ain. Lebanons representative gave assurances that the Committees wish would be honored.German archaeological teams began the modern digs at Baalbek in 1898, but the colossal and picturesque ruins had attracted particularly intrepid Westerners since the 18th century. Wood and Dawson made engravings of the ruins (1757) that brought their details into the repertory of British and European architects, just coinciding with the first stirrings of Neoclassicism.[edit]Heliopolis, the City of the SunTemple of JupiterTemple of Bacchus, around 1904Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt) was made a colonia by the Roman Empire in 15 BC and a leg
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