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Anti-Lebanon

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Anti-Lebanon

a mountain range running north and south between Syria and Lebanon, east of the Lebanon Mountains. Highest peak: Mount Hermon, 2814 m (9232 ft.)
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Approaching Damascus from the coastal highway, you travel beside the Barada ("Cold") River tumbling down from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains.
For the Kataeb Party there are two main substitutes for the garbage plan -- using a remote piece of land in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and decentralizing waste management.
Summary: The sun is rising over the Anti-Lebanon mountain range that borders Syria.
In the resort town of Zabadani, on the foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountain range, security forces and army units in armored personnel carriers raided houses overnight on Sunday and arrested 70 people, residents said.
Now, the waterways of this fertile valley of cherry orchards and almond trees, nestled between the Mount Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon massifs, are clean and otter-friendly, thanks to a new German-engineered, environmentally sensitive waste water treatment plant--part of the hima's overall management plan.
Summary: "I solemnly proclaim the state of Greater Lebanon and in the name of the French Republic; I recognize its sovereignty and extent from the Al-Kbir River to the borders of Palestine and the summits of the Anti-Lebanon mountains."
Green, chewy aniseed from Syria is then added as are each producer's individual ingredients, exact knowledge of which is a closely guarded secret among the many home distillers now dotting the snowy Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains.
The base is reportedly located at the heart of a network of tunnels under the anti-Lebanon mountain range.
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