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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Statements (50)

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 archaeological site
linked to: Byblos
hasLandmark Byblos Castle
Old Souk of Byblos
linked to: Byblos old souk

St John-Marc Cathedral
hasPort Jubayl port
historicalCulture Canaanite culture
linked to: Canaanites

Phoenician civilization
historicalRuler Assyrian Empire
linked to: Assyria

Babylonian Empire
Byzantine Empire
Crusader states
Egyptian New Kingdom
Hellenistic kingdoms
Mamluk Sultanate
Ottoman Empire
Persian Achaemenid Empire
linked to: Achaemenid Empire

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

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

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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