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Place details
- Locality
- البترون
- Region
- محافظة الشمال
- Country
- لبنان
- Population
- 10,852
- Timezone
- Asia/Beirut
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.native_name
- البترون
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Batroun port IMG 1038.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The port at the old city of Batroun with the St. Stephens Church
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Lebanon
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Batroun within Lebanon
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 280
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.name
- Batroun
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Batroun District
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Marcelino Al Hark
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 34
- Settlement.population_total
- 45000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Lebanon
- Located in
- Lebanon
- Population
- 38000
- Area
- 4.68
- Elevation
- 34
- Capital of
- Batroun District
- Official website
- www.batroun.com
- Image
- Batroun Makaad El Mir.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Valence
- Commons category
- Batroun
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
Travel guide
Understand
Batroun is one of the oldest cities in the world. The city is first mentioned in the Amarna tablets, a set of tablets consisting of correspondence between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru, during the 14th century BC The city was ruled by first the Phoenicians and then the Romans. Batroun was controlled by the Crusaders between 1104 AD and 1289 AD.
Get in
You can take any bus that travels along the coastal highway. You alight the bus at Batroun bus stop, and walk to the tourist attraction.
Get around
Walking is the obvious option within Batroun itself, most streets are very narrow and the distances are not too great.
See
thumb|The harbour in Batroun, with fishing boats and St Stephen's Cathedral in the background.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Article · Deutsch
Batrun (arabisch البترون, DMG al-Batrūn) ist eine Küstenstadt im Nord-Gouvernement des Libanon. Batrun ist Hauptort des gleichnamigen und Sitz eines Römisch-Katholischen Bistums. Der Name ist vom Griechischen Bothrys abgeleitet und wurde später zu Botrus latinisiert. Strabon, Plinius und Ptolemäus haben die hellenistische Kolonie erwähnt. Die Stadt liegt etwa 50 Kilometer nördlich von Beirut und 25 Kilometer südlich von Tripoli. Strandbäder und ein lebendiges Nachtleben machen Batrun zu einem beliebten Ausflugsziel.Die Stadt ist von Zitronenhainen umgeben und seit Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts für die frische Limonade bekannt, die daraus hergestellt wird. 1932 gab es 2136 Einwohner, die überwiegend Maroniten waren. Für 2010 wurden 15.386 Einwohner errechnet.
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
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