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Lebanon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon



Note the Marjeyoun District is the pink area in lower right, in the Nabateih Governorate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjeyou...


"Marjeyoun (also Marjayoun Marj Ayoun) stands majestically at a hill facing Mount Haramoun (Jabal El Sheikh, Mount Hermon) to the East, Beaufort 1000 years old Crusader Castle (Sh'ief Arnoun) above the Litani River and overlooking Mount Amel (Jabal Amel) to the West, The Rihan, Niha and the Lebanon Mountain Range to the North and the fertile plains of Sahil Marjeyoun that extends into Northern Israel between the Galilee finger and plains immediately underneath the Golan Heights."

http://www.marjeyoun.net/Snow3.jpg



"Snow in Jdeida 2007"

More winter pictures here: http://www.marjeyoun.net/Snow.html

Marjeyoun Winter

Marvelous collection of views of the area here: http://www.marjeyoun.net/Photos-Aroun...

http://www.marjeyoun.net/AblaR1.jpg



Marjeyoun Spring Vista

This collection of multiple links includes some that I have selected out in previous posts. Since I am doing this at the "last minute" I have not had a chance to sort through them all, let alone choose the most useful ones for us. Still hope you might enjoy.

http://www.marjeyoun.net/PhotoAlbum.html

Statue of St. George with townspeople.

(See approx. pp. 258-9 of text for the patron saint of the Marjayoun Church.)

More here: http://www.marjeyoun.net/St-Georges.html

I can imagine the above as the Dr. Khairalla's garden or this as one of the plants Anthony bought on their trips to the nursery:




Other bucolic views: http://www.marjeyoun.net/200810-Skaf....

Here is an image of Blatt, mentioned on pp. 37, 70, and 212.

http://www.marjeyoun.net/ON-Blat.html

http://www.marjeyoun.net/ON-Khiyam.html



Called Khiyam here, my guess is this is the Khiam mentioned with Blatt on p. 37 as Shiite villages. On p. 70, they are characterized as attacking and looting the Serail.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia...



Here is the Crusader fortress, Beaufort Castle, in 2005. The wiki article here shows an earlier view as well as how close this lies to Marjeyoun and how this area lies against the Israeli border.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort...