Aaiha
Sign in to saveAaiha (or Aiha) () is a village, plain, lake, and temporary wetland situated in the Rashaya District and south of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. It is located in an intermontane basin near Mount Hermon and the Syrian border, approximately halfway between Rashaya and Kfar Qouq.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in LB, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Aaiha is referenced by 212 other articles, and connects out to lake, Charles Warren and Ain Aata.
It is catalogued under topics including Ancient Roman temples, Archaeological sites in Lebanon and Druze communities in Lebanon.
Its subject is documented across 17 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Settlement.official_name
- Aaiha
- Settlement.native_name
- عيحا
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Beqaa Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Rashaya District
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Ancient site.name
- Aaiha
- Ancient site.image
- DestroyingAaiha.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- A concrete mixer laying concrete on the central hill of the Aaiha plain, remains of stone walls behind
- Ancient site.map_type
- Lebanon
- Ancient site.map_size
- 200
- Ancient site.location
- northeast of Rashaya
- Ancient site.region
- Bekaa Valley
- Ancient site.cultures
- Roman, Greek
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruins
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 1140
- Image
- DestroyingAaiha.jpg
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- Aaiha
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Aaiha plain, Aaiha lake and Aaiha intermittent lake
- The Chaff of Phiala
- Roman temple
- Wildlife
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Aaiha (or Aiha) () is a village, plain, lake, and temporary wetland situated in the Rashaya District and south of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. It is located in an intermontane basin near Mount Hermon and the Syrian border, approximately halfway between Rashaya and Kfar Qouq.
The village sits c. above sea level and the small population is predominantly Druze. Wild wheats Triticum boeoticum and T. urartu grow in this area, also used for farming goats. There is a nearby tomb of a Muslim saint and a Roman ruins thought to be a temple or citadel that is now totally destroyed
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aaiha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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