The catapults and trebuchets didn't arrive on time, so he had fruitless assaults on the fortresses of the Lebanon and on Mount Tabor.

From their fortresses in the Gharb area ( now in Aley District ) of southern Mount Lebanon Governorate, the Tanukhs led their incursions into the Phoenician coast and finally succeeded in holding Beirut and the marine plain against the Franks.

The Ma ' ans chose for their abode the Chouf District in south-western Lebanon ( southern Mount Lebanon Governorate ), overlooking the maritime plain between Beirut and Sidon, and made their headquarters in Baaqlin, which is still a leading Druze village.

This arrangement was to provide the cornerstone for the privileged status which ultimately came to be enjoyed by the whole of Mount Lebanon in Ottoman Syria, Druze and Christian areas alike.

Also, the Druze formed an alliance with Britain and allowed Protestant missionaries to enter Mount Lebanon, creating tension between them and the Catholic Maronites, who were supported by the French.

Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee ( Galil Elyon ), Lower Galilee ( Galil Tahton ), and Western Galilee ( Galil Ma ' aravi ), extending from Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the ridges of Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa north of Jenin and Tulkarm to the south, and from the Jordan Rift Valley to the east across the plains of the Jezreel Valley and Acre to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Coastal Plain in the west.

Within Lebanon and on its border with Syria, the bright white is snow covering the mountain peaks of Mount Lebanon and Mount Hermon.

The French expanded the borders of Mount Lebanon, which was mostly populated by Maronites and Druze, to include more Muslims.

Christianity was introduced to coastal plane of Mount Lebanon from neighboring Galilee, already in the 1st century.

The Arab advances brought Islam to Mount Lebanon and is coastal plane soon after the death of Muhammad.

The mountainous territory of Mount Lebanon has long been a shelter for minority and persecuted groups, including its historic Maronite Christian majority along with Druze, and local Shi ' a Muslims.

This was mostly because Mount Lebanon became a centre of silk production for export to Europe.

The western range, the second major region, is the Lebanon Mountains, sometimes called Mount Lebanon, or Lebanon proper before 1920.

Since Roman days the term Mount Lebanon has encompassed this area.

Anti-Lebanon is more arid, especially in its northern parts, than Mount Lebanon and is consequently less productive and more thinly populated.

At no great distance east of this rift-valley is Mount Kilimanjaro-with its two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi, the latter being, and the culminating point of the whole continent — and Mount Kenya, which is.

The project included collection and identification of all stone fragments, even small ones, from the Acropolis and its slopes and the attempt was made to restore as much as possible using reassembled original material-with new marble from Mount Penteli used sparingly.

* Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, a secondary school serving the Catholic community of Hyndburn and those who support its ethos.

Thus, " Armageddon " would mean " Mountain of Assembly ," which Jordan says is " a reference to the assembly at Mount Sinai, and to its replacement, Mount Zion.

The city is synonymous with Mount Uludağ which towers behind its core and which is also a famous ski resort.

Its lowest point is the Caribbean Sea and its highest point is Mount Sage at above sea level.

* The modern Nikon F Mount SLR camera lenses from the late 1970s-present ( its design dates back to 1959 ) can function on the newer Nikon DSLR cameras with some limitations.

In 2000, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( AZA ) upgraded the bongo to a Species Survival Plan ( SSP ) Participant and in 2006 named the Bongo Restoration to Mount Kenya Project to its list of the Top Ten Wildlife Conservation Success Stories of the year.

The highest elevations of Mount Kinabalu are home to the Kinabalu mountain alpine meadow, an alpine shrubland notable for its numerous endemic species, including many orchids.

At a time when scientific research in the United States was still in its infancy, George Ellery Hale, a solar astronomer from the University of Chicago, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904.

In addition to its campus in Hanover, Dartmouth owns of Mount Moosilauke in the White Mountains Region and a tract of land in northern New Hampshire known as the Second College Grant.

Similar to the desert, the peninsula contains mountains in its southern sector that are a geological extension of the Red Sea Hills, the low range along the Red Sea coast that includes Mount Catherine ( Jabal Katrinah ), the country's highest point, at 2, 642 m above sea-level.

Between Poggio and Marciana, at the foot of Mount Capanne, is a natural spring called Fonte Napoleone, which is regarded for its quality.

By 1775, Washington had doubled the size of Mount Vernon to, and had increased its slave population to over 100.

Due to its high rainfall ( 900 – 1200 mm ), mild temperatures and high mountains ( Mount Meron's elevation is 1, 000 – 1, 208 metres ), the upper Galilee region contains some unique flora and fauna: prickly juniper ( Juniperus oxycedrus ), Lebanese cedar ( Cedrus libani ), which grows in a small grove on Mount Meron, cyclamens, paeonias and Rhododendron ponticum which sometimes appears on Meron.

In 1882, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detected helium on Earth, for the first time, through its D < sub > 3 </ sub > spectral line, when he analyzed the lava of Mount Vesuvius.

During its production run, the Torana achieved legendary racing success in Australia, achieving victories at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales.

The coastal plain of the southern Levant, broad in the south and narrowing to the north, is backed in its southernmost portion by a zone of foothills, the Shephelah ; like the plain this narrows as it goes northwards, ending in the promontory of Mount Carmel.

Mount Athos was then at the height of its fame and influence, under the reign of Andronicus III Palaeologus and under the ' first-ship ' of the Protos Symeon.

If Daniel's Vita is trustworthy ( and there is nothing against which to judge its accuracy ), then John came to the Vatos Monastery at Mount Sinai, now Saint Catherine's Monastery, and became a novice when he was about 16 years old.

Mount Gimie, the highest peak, is located in the central mountain range and rises to above sea level, a contrast that is also evident in the abrupt climatic transition from coastal to inland areas.

Epacris impressa is commonly found in coastal regions and nearby foothills in a region extending from the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia across southern Victoria and northwards to southern New South Wales as far as the Clyde River.

* Mount Carmel, coastal mountain range in Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea

The park protects diverse range of habitats including the rugged, forested landscape surrounding Mount Elliot and Saddle Mountain as well as coastal estuaries between Cape Cleveland and Cape Bowling Green.

His earliest ventures on the water were made on coastal schooners operating out of the small ports such as Port George and Cottage Cove near Mount Hanley along the Bay of Fundy.

The Club's first goals included establishing Glacier and Mount Rainier national parks, convincing the California legislature to give Yosemite Valley to the US Federal government, and saving California's coastal redwoods.

Saul and Labaya share the same demise-" both die in battle-against a coalition of city states from the coastal plain-on or near Mount Gilboa, both as a result of betrayal.

The Nisqually Indians originally inhabited the interior woodlands and coastal waters from Mount Rainier west to Puget Sound.

God's vineyard );, Kármēlos ;, Kurmul or جبل مار إلياس Jabal Mar Elyas ' Mount Saint Elias ') is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast.

On the west, the foothills of the range are separated by a narrow coastal plain from Puget Sound except along Chuckanut Drive between Bellingham and Mount Vernon, where they abut the Sound directly.

When 8th Army were held up by stubborn defences in the rugged hills south of Mount Etna, Patton amplified the American role by a wide advance northwest toward Palermo and then directly north to cut the northern coastal road.

This includes mountainous rain forest on Mount Baluran, lowland monsoon forest, coastal forest, sea grass, and coral reefs, as well as the savannah that covers about 40 % of the national park.

Stretching from Mount Dumali in the northeastern part of the island ( 751 miles ) high and prominent, the coastal trends southward with a succession of sweeping curves towards Pinamalayan Bay to Duyagan Point.

The highest point on the island is named Mount Tempest, which, at 280 m, is reputedly the highest, stabilised, coastal sandhill in the world.

Some of the largest expanses of old growth are found in Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Tongass National Forest, Mount St. Helens National Monument, Redwood National Park, and throughout British Columbia ( including British Columbia's Coastal Mountain Ranges ), with the coastal Great Bear Rainforest containing the largest expanses of old growth temperate rainforest found in the world.

The Shfela or Shephelah (), also, Shfelat Yehuda, " Judean foothills ", is a lowland in south-central Israel stretching over 10 – 15 km between Mount Hebron and the coastal plain.

Beyond the coastal lowlands was Mount Carmel.

Mount Fairweather ( officially gazetted as Fairweather Mountain in Canada but referred to as Mount Fairweather ), is one of the world's highest coastal mountains at 4, 671 metres ( 15, 325 feet.

* Lil ' wat First Nation, their traditional territory extended south to Rubble Creek, north to just below Anderson Lakes, east to the Upper Stein Valley and west to the coastal inlets of the Pacific Ocean, in total approximately 780, 000 ha, the current community Mount Currie ( or Lilwat ' ul ) is the heart of the Lil ’ wat Nation territory