Anjar Ruins
Anjar otherwise called Hosh Mousa, a town of Lebanon situated in the Bekaa Valley. The populace is 2,400, comprising as a rule of Armenians. The absolute region is around twenty square kilometers (7.7 square miles). In the mid year, the populace enlarges to 3,500, as individuals from the Armenian diaspora return to visit there. In the old world, it was known as Chalkis in Unesco.
History
The town's establishment is typically ascribed to the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I, toward the start of the eighth century, as a royal residence city. Syriac spray painting found in the quarry from which the best stone was extricated offer the year 714, and there are Byzantine and Syriac sources ascribing the foundation of the town to Umayyad rulers, with one Syriac account referencing Walid I by name, while the Byzantine writer Theophanes the Confessor recorded that it was Walid's child, al-Abbas, who began building the town in 709-10.Historian Jere L. Bacharach acknowledges Theophanes' date. Albeit prior materials were re-utilized, a large part of the city is based on virgin soil of the World Heritage site.
After the beginning of the Lebanese common conflict, the residents began arranging a nearby protection power to dissuade any unfriendly power coming from the encompassing Muslim towns, whose fanatics saw the presence of a Christian town in the area as disturbing. Before long, the town became known as a fortification in the area, chiefly due to its efficient civilian army. During the common conflict, Anjar had to make coalitions and haggle with a few of the belligerents to keep up with harmony, most remarkably Syria. The Syrian Army picked Anjar as one of its super army installations in the Beqaa Valley and the base camp of its knowledge administrations in Heritage city.
Following the common conflict, Anjar began to modify monetarily. A large number of its occupants moved to different nations, for the most part to Europe, Canada, and the United States. In any case, today Anjar is a guide to numerous different elements in the district in view of its low wrongdoing rate reduced air contamination, and high expectations for everyday comforts. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the town quickly forced severe measures and set a model for the remainder of the country in Unesco
Religion and instruction
Armenian Apostolic Saint Paul Church is the second biggest Armenian church in Lebanon of the World Heritage site.The Armenian Apostolic people group has its own school, Haratch Calouste Gulbenkian Secondary School. In 1940, the central supervisor of the Armenian paper Haratch in Paris, Shavarsh Missakian, coordinated a raising money crusade among the Armenians living in France which empowered the structure of the "Haratch" Elementary School close to the recently settled St. Paul Armenian Apostolic Church. The authority opening of the school occurred in 1941. The organization of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation added to the development of the school, which was named to pay tribute to Calouste Gulbenkian of the World Heritage site.
Our Lady of the Rosary Armenian Catholic Church in Anjar fills in as chapel for the Armenian Catholics, who likewise run the Armenian Catholic Sisters School. To start with, the school had two divisions, St. Hovsep for the male understudies and Sisters of Immaculate Conception for the female understudies. In 1953, the school, which had as of now become a transitional school, was advanced into an optional school. It has day classes just as boarding offices for understudies from different areas who stay there all through the colder time of year in Unesco.
Economy
Anjar's economy is for the most part dependent on administrations, with not very many agrarian and modern exercises. The greatest private manager is by a long shot the organization "Farces" (in a real sense "Sun"), a nearby family-run business that began as a little eatery on the central avenue of the town during the 1960s. Today, the organization has numerous properties on the region of Anjar and its environmental factors, including inns, resorts, a corner store, a bowling alley, and so forth.
The region is additionally a significant boss. It pays pay rates for instructors, local officials, and law requirement work force. In contrast to the remainder of the nation, where policing is given by the focal government, Anjar has its own city police wearing dull green regalia and answering to the region rather than the service of interior issues in the World Heritage site.
Anjar has various little family-run organizations, which structure the foundation of the nearby economy. A portion of these organizations prevailed with regards to really establishing themselves, and accordingly have customers from the nation over. For instance, "Hairdo Yessoug", a nearby barbier and magnificence shop, is one of the most famous salons for prospective wedded ladies, having business boards similar to Beirut in Heritage city.
Anjar artifacts
Once in the past known as Gerrha, a fortress worked by Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid ibn Abdel Malek in the eighth century, the site was subsequently deserted, leaving various very much safeguarded ruins. The present-day name gets from Arabic Ayn Gerrha, or "wellspring of Gerrha". The solely Umayyad ruins have been perceived as a World Heritage Site.
The city ruins cover 114,000 square meters and are encircled by enormous, strengthened stone dividers more than two meters thick and seven meters high. The rectangular city plan of 370 m by 310 m depends on Roman city arranging and design with stonework acquired from the Byzantines. Two enormous roads, the Cardo most extreme, running north to south, and the Decumanus Maximus, running east to west, partition the city into four quadrants. The two fundamental roads, adorned with corridors and flanked by around 600 shops, meet under a tetrapylon of the World Heritage site.
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