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Kaukaba, or Kawkaba is a municipality in the Hasbaya District in the Nabatieh Governorate in southern Lebanon.

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Kaukaba, or Kawkaba is a municipality in the Hasbaya District in the Nabatieh Governorate in southern Lebanon.

==Archaeology== By the village is a Neolithic archaeological site East of Majdel Balhis near Rashaya in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. It was first found by P. Billaux in 1957 who alerted Jesuit Archaeologists, Fathers Henri Fleisch and Tallon. Open air site excavations by L. and F. Skeels were also carried out in 1964.

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