Lebanese Geography

Lebanese Geography

137 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

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  1. Complete the sentence about Zouk Mikael with the correct year: Zouk Mikael is known as the Lebanese city of basketball, as it has the Stade Nouhad Naufal which was completed in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Douma, Lebanon with the correct year: In ______ the Ottoman mutasarrif of Mount Lebanon, Rustum Pasha, appointed a municipal council to administer Douma, the sixth locality…
  3. Complete the sentence about Douma, Lebanon with the correct year: During the ______ Ottoman Syria locust infestation, the St John Monastery at Douma expended 522 Ottoman kuruş against the locusts in o…
  4. Complete the sentence about Shatila with the correct year: Shatila was set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross to accommodate hundreds of refugees who came there after ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Shatila with the correct year: Since the eruption of the Syrian Civil War in ______, Lebanon's population has swelled by more than 1 million Syrian refugees.
  6. Complete the sentence about Sabra and Shatila massacre with the correct year: The casus belli cited by the Israeli side to declare war, however, was an assassination attempt, on 3 June ______, made up…
  7. Complete the sentence about Sabra and Shatila massacre with the correct year: On 6 June ______, Israel invaded Lebanon moving northwards to surround the capital, Beirut.
  8. Which place completes this sentence about Zahlé? By the 1860's and 1870's the local merchants were prosperous but were still dependent on banks in ______ for credit for their transactions.
  9. Which place completes this sentence about Jounieh? Since 2017, it has been the capital of Keserwan-______ Governorate.
  10. Which place completes this sentence about Aley? The city is located on Mount Lebanon, 15km uphill from ______ on the freeway to Damascus.
  11. Which place completes this sentence about Bint Jbeil? During the turbulent transition to the French Mandate in the spring of 1920, Bint ______ emerged as a central stronghold for the anti-French Jabal…
  12. Which place completes this sentence about Bint Jbeil? In the 1930s, Bint ______ was a major tobacco-producing town with an educated populace.
  13. Which place completes this sentence about Bint Jbeil? In 1936, the tobacco revolt against French rule broke out in Bint ______ following the killing of three protesters by gendarmes.
  14. Which place completes this sentence about Zgharta? Another later visitor in 1831 records that "From ______ I left for Zgharta, which is two hours away.
  15. Which place completes this sentence about Baabda? In 1956, Baabda Palace was built in Baabda as the official presidential residence, on a hill overlooking ______.
  16. Which place completes this sentence about Jbeil? Eusebius' Onomasticon stated that ______ was called "Gobel / Gebal" in Hebrew.
  17. Which place completes this sentence about Naqoura? Some of the buildings marked the end of the Lebanese section of the ______-Haifa railway which had been closed since Jewish forces blew up the tunnel…
  18. Which place completes this sentence about Mount Lebanon? The most notable example is the First Temple built by King Solomon who used cedar wood sent by Hiram of ______.
  19. Which place completes this sentence about Temple of Bacchus? In 1984 the ruins at ______ were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  20. Which place completes this sentence about Tyre Hippodrome? The ______ Hippodrome, located in the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, is an ancient sporting arena and UNESCO World Heritage site dating ba…
  21. Which place completes this sentence about Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles? The first cornerstone was set in the 9th century during the conquest of ______ by Sufyan al-azadi, it was a fort 2 miles a…
  22. Which place completes this sentence about Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles? The citadel was built on the orders of Raymond of Saint-Gilles during the siege of ______.
  23. Which place completes this sentence about Byblos Castle? Later, the Crusaders recaptured ______ and rebuilt the fortifications of the castle in 1197.
  24. Which place completes the sentence? Fulk, King of Jerusalem, captured the fortification in 1139 and gave the site to the lords of ______.
  25. Which place completes this sentence about Governorates of Lebanon? The newest governorate is Keserwan-______, which was gazetted on 7 September 2017 but whose first governor, Pauline Deeb, was not app…
  26. Which place completes this sentence about Governorates of Lebanon? Implementation of the next most recently created governorates, Akkar and ______-Hermel, also remains ongoing since the appointment of…
  27. Which place completes this sentence about Beqaa Governorate? Implementation of ______-Hermel Governorate began in 2014 with the appointment of its first governor.
  28. Which place completes this sentence about Faraya? According to the 17th-century historian and Maronite patriarch Istifan al-Duwayhi, Faraya was settled by Shia Muslims from ______ in the 16th century.
  29. Which place completes this sentence about Ehden? Ehden was the original homeland for Zghartians who later established ______ on the Lebanese coast in the 16th century.
  30. Which place completes this sentence about Ehden? Father George Yammine found the manuscript, which was written on an old piece of leather, at the start of the 19th century in a priest's home in ______…
  31. Which place completes this sentence about Bcharre? Residents of ______ are known for their distinct accent when they speak Lebanese Arabic.
  32. Which place completes this sentence about Bcharre? Unlike other parts of Lebanon, Aramaic was spoken in ______ as a liturgical language well into the 19th century.
  33. Which place completes this sentence about Douma, Lebanon? Douma is administratively part of ______ District and is known for its location in a valley surrounded by mountains.
  34. Which place completes this sentence about Burj al-Shamali? The settlement is named after a medieval tower on its main hill that overlooks ______.
  35. Which place completes this sentence about Burj al-Shamali? Burj el-Shamali reportedly covers an area of 1.069 hectare, rising to an elevation of more than 60 metres on a hill overlooking ______/Sour p…
  36. Which place completes this sentence about Ain al-Hilweh? The camp is located west of the village Miye ou Miye and the Mieh Mieh refugee camp, southeast of the port city of ______ and north of Darb Es…
  37. Which place completes this sentence about Ain al-Hilweh? Ain Al-Hilweh is located on land owned by landowners from Miye ou Miye, Darb Es Sim and ______.

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