Does anyone know of any website with a map showing geographical features of Lebanon and Syria? The main geographical features I would be looking for are the Orontes River, Hims Gap, Anti-Lebanon Mountains, Mount Lebanon, and lastly, the Al-Ansariyah mountains. It would be helpful because it is confusing with that many mountain ranges in these two countries. Thanks!

looney_tunes

You may need to use multiple maps. Here is a map showing the Orontes River - its relationship to the cities shown should make its position on a map of Syria clear. http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://holylandarchive.com/section_images/344_AntiochMap050322.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.holylandphotos.org/go.asp%3Fs%3D344&h=239&w=324&sz=78&tbnid=jY0-TcdsJaxQAM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dorontes%2Briver&hl=en&usg=__lOXuZctzoiAsKOBEZQem9_sEgOU=&ei=LLe_S_qGHJSLnQf11J2BCg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=8&ct=image&ved=0CBcQ9QEwBw Hims Gap can be seen here. It fits into the Orontes River map. The lower white zones are the Lebanon Mountains on the left, and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains on the right. The Al-Ansariyah Mountains are to the north of it. As the Lebanon-Syria border is shown, you can work out how it fits onto an overall map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hims_Gap_sat.jpg Mount Lebanon is on this map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lebanon "The Hims Gap (Arabic: فتحة حمص‎) (also called the Akkar Gap) is a relatively flat passage in the Orontes River Valley of southern Syria. Nicknamed the "gateway to Syria," the gap separates the Al-Ansariyah mountains and Jebel Zawiyah (Jabal an Nasariyah) from the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains. The small Nahr al-Kabir river runs down the Gap to the Syrian coast to the Mediterranean Sea." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hims_Gap Apr 09 10, 5:37 PM

knightmyst

Thanks but do you have a map that is labelled rather and also in showing how far the range stretched? Something like normal map but showing from where to where it stretched. And most importantly all the mountain ranges + the river in 1 map, cause many maps make it complicated? Apr 09 10, 6:02 PM

Arpeggionist

Try going to Google Earth. There's really not much to be confused about - Lebanon is a very small country, and the mountain ranges you mentioned are, for the most part, really subregions of the same long mountain range - the western Levant mountain range, which includes the Lebanese Hermon. (The Lebanese Hermon is really the Lebanese part of the Hermon mountain chain, which forms its borders with Israel and Syria. The southern tip of the mountain range is the Israeli Hermon, the eastern side of the mountains is Syria.) Apr 11 10, 4:08 AM