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BAR ELIAS
Site characteristics
Barelias
is a
village of the Bekaa Valley, the center of Bekaa,
known widely acknowledged by the transit passes, the
center distance between Beirut and Damascus. As the
distance between the center of the northern Bekaa
and the south became important because of its
central valleys and on the international line of the
most important economic centers and the largest
commercial markets,
Barelias has
good
neighborly relations with the rest of the towns and
villages and cities in the province.
Received via Syria and Beirut over roads
.
Multi-ways
from all directions through advanced in the center
of the Bekaa must
lead you
to Barelias
,it is an open gate
to all guests and visitors.
Barelias located in the district of Zahle on the
average of 900 m above sea level, at a distance of
51 Km from Beirut via Damascus-Chtoura. Spread over
both sides of the international line between Beirut
and Damascus over the exterior 4 km and extends
lovely plain green sprawling distances up
to
Anjar
east and Zahle west
and Kafr Zabad
and Addalhamiah
north and Almarj
tothe
south.
A vast land area of about 35000 dunums (3500
hectares) of which about 7000 dunums residential and
the rest agricultural.
Crops : beet, onion and fries, apples and beans. The
number of residents registered a 25.000 People of
origin approximately 7500 voters
.
Barelias witnessed on the road, thanks to its
international movement active trade between Lebanon
and Syria, which has contributed to make it a center
for branches of
Financial institutions and businesses and industry.
Name
and Origin
Freiha said that the first passage of the name
"mainland" might be the word is being
BARRA
And means
The field, and it might be
BARR
means
wheat, but preferred the word
BAR
Syriac and means
"
Son "as it is also in the Arab South. The Elias
stated that it is one of the Hebrew by Greek or
Latin
: EL ĬSHA
And means
"Divine salvation and survival," In Greek
ELISA
And it
means
: the son of
Elias
and field
of Elias
.
Found in some
places
of the town,
old mill buildings and some porcelain and other
residues
,Indicates
that the town had known the activities of the
ancient peoples
who
lived there
before its present society, but He did not benefit
from what it was more than agricultural land, we
tend to take sense that Freiha mentioned for
the first part of the name, the "field", either Part
II : Elias, it Ba'l Phoenician goddess of fertility,
and it is evident that the people called the name
God
on
agricultural land , then the meaning of the name
field of
God
Elias
.
One of the most
important places which still witness to the
history of Barelias
Tall
Barelias(Barelias
hill),
Tall
Alsarhon-alsarhon
hill,still
there are some ruins
of
an
old Palace), Tall
Abu
hijara (stones hill)
Aljubelah,
Barelias mosque, Maralias
Church
Barelias
is
managed by council composed of 18 members. The
first elected council in the early 1960s,
newly ,
the first municipal election
took place
in 1998 and Dr. Reda Meis
won the presidency of the Council
, And the second session was held in 2004 and
the presidency of the Council
was won
by
Mr. Araji Mowas.
The municipal council in Barelias
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