Antilyas
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Antelias أنطلياس |
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 Antelias
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| Coordinates: 33°55′0″N 35°36′0″E / 33.91667°N 35.60000°ECoordinates: 33°55′0″N 35°36′0″E / 33.91667°N 35.60000°E | |
| Country |
 Lebanon
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| Governorate | Mount Lebanon Governorate |
| District | Matn District |
| Mayor | Michel Aoun |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Dialing code | +961 |
Antelias (Arabic: أنطلياس; Armenian: Անթիլիաս) is a town in Lebanon. It is located around 5 km to the north of Beirut.
The name is originally Greek, ἀντήλιος – from ἀντί(anti) "contra" and ἥλιος (helios) "sun" – meaning "facing the sun".
The municipality of Antelias - Naqqach is located in the Kaza of Matn, one of the eight mohafazats (governorates) of Lebanon. Antelias - Naqqach is 8 kilometers (4.9712 mi) from Beyrouth (Beirut), the capital of Lebanon. Its elevation is 10 meters (32.81 ft; 10.936 yd) above sea level. Antelias - Naqqach surface stretches for 193 hectares (1.93 km² - 0.74498 mi²).
Antelias is home to the site of Ksar Akil where the region's oldest remains of a human being have been found: a 30,000-year-old man near the caves of Ksar Akil. The skull of the body found was sent the Beirut National Museum and the remains were shipped to the United States for conservation and study. Those caves are also well coveted by known speleologists who have explored their passage ways. Antelias cave was also located 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) east of the town until it was completely destroyed by dynamite in 1964. Discoveries from Antelias are housed at the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory.
Antelias is also the site of the St-Elie Church, built in 1895. St-Elie Church holds celebrations on the week of 19 July. A variety of activities are offered to the public such as plays, concerts, a fair and food, sweet stands and fireworks.
Antelias (The St Elie Convent in particular) was the venue for the signature of a historical treaty (In Arabic: عامية أنطلياس Ammiyat Antelias) between several communities in Lebanon to unite against the oppression of the Egyptian occupation and their allies in the mid-19th century, precisely in 1840. The Christian and Druze communities were the main parties in that treaty. The treaty did not however prevent a fierce war between the two parties in 1860 which led to tens of thousands of victims.
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