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Karak Nuh

This article is about the village and area in Lebanon. For other uses of "Karak", see Karak (disambiguation).

Karak
كرك
كرك نوح
Karak is located in Lebanon
Karak
Karak
Coordinates: 33°51′0″N 35°55′35″E / 33.85000°N 35.92639°E / 33.85000; 35.92639
CountryLebanon
GovernorateBeqaa
DistrictZahlé
Time zoneGMT +2
 • Summer (DST)+3
Area code(+961) 8

Karak (also Kerak, Karak Nuh or Karak Noah) (Arabic: كرك, romanized: Karak) is a village in the municipality of Zahlé in the Zahle District of the Beqaa Governorate in eastern Lebanon.[1] It is located on the Baalbek road close to Zahle. Karak contains a sarcophagus claimed by the locals to be the tomb of Noah.[2] The inhabitants of Karak are Melkites, Maronites and Shia Muslims.[3]

  1. ^ "Zahleh - Maallaqa - Taanayel". Local Liban. 22 February 2006. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  2. ^ Winter, 2010, p. 43 ff
  3. ^ "Municipal and ikhtiariah elections in the Beqa'a 147 municipalities and 414 mokhtars" (PDF). The Monthly Magazine. February 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.

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