Tannourins
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Tannourins تنورين |
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 Lebanon
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| Governorate : | North Lebanon | ||
| District: | Batrum | ||
| Coordinates : | 34 ° 11 ' N , 35 ° 54' E | ||
| Area : | 6,734 ha | ||
| Residents : | 16,000 (2015) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+961) 06/500 020 - 500 678 | ||
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Tannourine ( Arabic تنورين, DMG Tannūrīn , also: Tannoureen, Tannorine) is a city in the district of Batrum in Mohafazah in the governorate of northern Lebanon . The city is about 75 km north of Beirut .
Worth seeing
- " Tannourine Cedars Forest Nature Reserve ", a nature reserve with a cedar forest of around 60,000 trees on an area of 195.5 hectares at an altitude of between 1,300 and 1,800 meters
- Baatara Gorge, a sinkhole with a 250 meter deep open cave and a 90 meter high waterfall
- Roman aqueduct in the Tannourine-Al-Tahta valley
- Village of Ain-al-Raha and Wata Houb in the high mountains in the Tannourine-Al-Tahta valley (churches and monasteries of Saint Shallitah and Saint Antonios Houb from the 6th century, some of the oldest testimonies of Christianity in the region)
- 500 year old Lebanese house and an example of early Lebanese architecture under the rocky outcrops of Tannourine-Al-Tahta (front cover of a National Geographic report on Lebanon)
Personalities
- Assia Dagher (1908–1986), Egyptian actress and film producer (sister of Mary Queeny)
- Mary Queeny , actually: Mary Boutros Younis Dagher, (1913-2003), Egyptian actress and film producer (sister of Assia Dagher)
- Antonios Tarabay , known as Bouna Antoun (1911-1998), Lebanese Maronite monk of the Maronite Maronite order and hermit in the monastery of Saint Elisha Bcharre (Mar Licha) in Wadi Qadischa
- Chucrallah Harb (1923–2019), Lebanese clergyman and Maronite bishop of Jounieh
- Boutros Harb (* 1944), Lebanese politician and Minister of Telecommunications (2014-2016)
- Charbel Dagher (* 1950), Lebanese author and poet and professor at Balamand University
- Claude Comair (* 1956), Lebanese entrepreneur ( DigiPen Institute of Technology , Nintendo Software Technology )
- Antoine Tarabay OLM (* 1967), Lebanese clergyman and Maronite bishop of the Eparchy of St. Marron of Sydney
- Abeer Nehme (* 1980), Lebanese singer and musician
- Maya Reaidy (* 1995), Lebanese model and Miss Lebanon 2018
Others
- Julio César Turbay Ayala , President of Colombia from 1978 to 1982 (His parents Antonio Amín Turbay and Rosaura Ayala were emigrants to Colombia and come from Tannourine.)
- Shakira , full name Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , where Isabelle Mebarak is the name of her grandmother, who was born in Tannourine.