🏛️ Anjar
UNESCO World Heritage Site of an 8th-century Umayyad planned city in the Bekaa Valley
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1985
- Founded by Caliph Walid I in the early 8th century CE
- Located in the Bekaa Valley, 60 km east of Beirut
- Abandoned after a few decades; exceptionally well-preserved urban layout
Anjar is an archaeological site in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley comprising the ruins of a planned city built during ...