Antelias
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| Coordinates : | 33 ° 55 ' N , 35 ° 36' E | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
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Antelias ( Arabic أنطلياس; the name comes from the Greek Ante Helios , English opposite the sun ) is a place in Lebanon , about 5 km north of Beirut .
The majority of the inhabitants are Christians (Maronites, Greek Catholics, Greek Orthodox and Armenians). Antelias is home to St. Elie, a Maronite convent with two churches. The seat of the Armenian Apostolic Catholicos of Cilicia , who resided in Sis, today Kozan (Turkey), before the Armenian genocide is located here.
geography
Antelias is located on the Mediterranean coast and the plain was cultivated with orange and banana trees for a long time. Colonization and urbanization of Antelias began in the 1950s. Today there are still few green spaces. Antelias is also known as the gateway to the Metn region (Bikfaya, Dhour el Chweir, Baskinta and Aintoura), where many holiday resorts, factories, shopping centers (St. Elie Center, ABC, Spinney) and schools exist. Antelias also has a marina. There is also an annual book fair in Antelias.
history
Antelias is known for the archaeological site Ksar Akil , in which, among other things, the 40,000 year old skeleton of an anatomically modern human was found. In 1895 St. Elie Church was built. In the St. Elie Monastery, a historical treaty (Ammiyat Antelias) between the various religious communities, especially between the Maronites and Druzen, was signed in Lebanon in 1840 in order to form a unity against the oppression of the Ottoman occupation.