Jubayl

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Jubayl is a historic coastal city in Lebanon, widely identified with the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

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Jubayl canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf city
coastal city
historic city
continent Asia
country Lebanon
distanceToBeirut about 40 km north
hasAncientName Byblos
hasArchaeologicalFeature Crusader castle
Phoenician temples
Roman theater
ancient city walls
medieval city gate
hasArchaeologicalSite Byblos
surface form: Byblos archaeological site
hasLandmark Byblos Castle
Byblos old souk
surface form: Old Souk of Byblos

St John-Marc Cathedral
hasPort King Fahd Industrial Port at Jubail
surface form: Jubayl port
historicalCulture Canaanites
surface form: Canaanite culture

Phoenician civilization
historicalRuler Assyria
surface form: Assyrian Empire

Old Babylonian Empire
surface form: Babylonian Empire

Byzantine Empire
Crusader states
New Kingdom of Egypt
surface form: Egyptian New Kingdom

Hellenistic kingdoms
Mamluk Sultanate
Ottoman Empire
Achaemenid Empire
surface form: Persian Achaemenid Empire

Roman Empire
identifiedWith Byblos
isOneOf oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world
languageUsedHistorically Arabic
Greek
Latin
Phoenician
locatedIn Levant region
surface form: Levant

Mount Lebanon Governorate
locatedOn Mediterranean Sea
nearbyCity Beirut
partOf Phoenician civilization
surface form: Phoenicia
primaryEconomicActivity fishing
services
tourism
religionPresent Christianity
Islam
timePeriodOfContinuousHabitationSince 3rd millennium BCE
UNESCOSiteId 295
UNESCOSiteInscriptionYear 1984
UNESCOSiteName Byblos
UNESCOStatus UNESCO World Heritage Site
surface form: World Heritage Site

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Byblos nameInArabic Jubayl
Gbl hasNameInArabic Jubayl
Gebal hasArabicName Jubayl
Jbeil alternativeName Jubayl