Anjar municipality

Lebanon / al-Biqaa / Zahhlah /
 municipality, draw only border
A town which was built by a group of Armenians that due to the threats of the Turkish government in 1939 were forced to leave their own homeland MoussaDagh and were driven to the outskirts of Lebanon. There they were given a new piece of land bought by the French government and were left in those mudlands to face their own destiny. It was there, in Anjar, that they started a new life, cultivated, blossomed, and progressed.
(www.mousaleranjar.com)

Contains unique ruins of an Umeyyad city (8th century), classified as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO: whc.unesco.org/en/list/293
almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/900/910/919/anjar
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Coordinates:   33°44'18"N   35°55'58"E
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