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Baalbeck
Village, E Lebanon. In ancient times it was a great city built on the lower W slope of the Anti-Lebanon Mtns. Its identification with the worship of Baal as a Semitic sun-god gave rise to its Greek name, Heliopolis. It was made a Roman colony by Julius Caesar. In AD 637 it came under Arab control, and was administered by Muslim rulers from Syria until the 20th cent. After World War I it was made part of Lebanon. It has extensive ruins, incl. temples of Jupiter, Bacchus, and Venus, town walls, Roman mosaics, a mosque, and Arab fortifications.
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