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    Hama and Homs which reached the Beirut to Damascus narrow-gauge line at Riyaq. Both railways were built and owned by French companies. During the First...
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    the employee lounge and a security building. The first train arrived in Riyaq from Beirut in 1895. The Riyak railway complex covered 35 400 square metres...
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    the villages of Furzol, Ablah and Niha to the northeast and the towns of Riyaq, Haoush Hala and Ali en Nahri to the east with a total population close...
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    1942: Creation of the Groupe de Chasse Normandie n° III (GC Normandie 3) in Riyaq, Lebanon. 7 February 1944: GC Normandie 3 becomes the Régiment de Chasse...
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    Rayak Air Base (Arabic: قاعدة رياق الجوية | Kaidat Rayak al-jawiya) (ICAO: OLRA) is Lebanon's first air base and the place where the Lebanese Air Force...
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    on 19 June 1902. It formed a station on the standard-gauge line between Riyaq to its south and Aleppo (now in Syria) to its north. This Aleppo Railway...
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    Fares Maakaroun, (born 12 October 1940 in Rayak (Riyaq), Lebanon) was an archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso...
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    to land at Riyaq in the Bekaa Valley at 11:50. They had flown 760 km from Cairo in five hours and ten minutes.[citation needed] From Riyaq, the crew set...
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    English. The initial concession was later emended to link the two lines at Riyaq instead of Damascus. Service from Damascus south to Muzeirib began in July...
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    "Cairo-Luxor-Shalla" 1929 Train Eclair "Paris-Vienna" 1882 Taurus Express "Haydarpaşa-Riyaq-Baghdad" 1930 Tirol Express "Paris-Salzburg" 1936 Torino-Nizza-Cannes Pullman...
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