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    Afqa (Arabic: افقا; also spelled Afka) is a village and municipality located in the Byblos District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, 71 kilometres (44 mi)...
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    provides two thirds the flow of the Nahr Ibrahim and from a huge cavern, the Afqa Grotto, that provides a third of the flow, nearly 1.5 km above sea level...
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    Almat, Ras Osta, Hjoula and Bichtlida, and in the jurd highlands of Lassa, Afqa and Mazraat es-Siyad. A Greek Orthodox minority forms part of the population...
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    Princeton Encyclopedia (1976). Southern (2008), p. 18. fedaa (2022-12-19). "Afqa spring returns to flow in the center Syrian al-Badia". Syrian Arab News Agency...
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    equated, at Byblos, as well as at Afqa. According to Zosimus, a phenomenon would take place at site of the temple of Afqa whereby a bright and fiery star-like...
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    Sultantepe Attalia (Antalya) Abel-beth-maachah Acre Adoraim (Adora, Dura) Afqa (Afeka) Alalakh (Alakhtum, Tell Atchana) Aleppo (Halab, Ha-Lam, Yamhad) Al-Rastan...
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    el Ghareb Taazanieh Note: starred cities are part of metropolitan Beirut. Afqa Ain el-Ghouaybeh Ain Jrain Akoura Almat el-Chemalieh Almat el-Janubieh Almat...
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    sometimes performed as a festival or social rite in the cities of Byblos, Afqa and Baalbek (later named Heliopolis) as well as the nearby Syrian city of...
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    feasts celebrating Adonis Adonism (religion) Apheca, the ancient name of Afqa in Lebanon Myrrha, mother of Adonis, per Greek mythology Adonis belt (anatomy)...
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  • city of the tribe of Asher, identified as either Tel Afek near Haifa, or Afqa in Lebanon. After the turn of the 20th century the predominant opinion was...
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