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Baalbek - بعلبك City of the Sun Baalbek ( بعلبك ) is a city in Lebanon's Beqaa valley, in the city there is a large archaeological complex with ruins of ancient cities.  The Phoenicians were the first to build Baalbek and inhabit it and this was likely around 9000BC though it is not extensively documented.  The city was then named Baalbek بعلبك  from the two words Baal and Bak, Baal was the Pheonician and Canaanite God and Bak meant city, so it was then named 'the city of Baal". After the Phoenicians the Greeks were in rule of the region and Alexander the Great conquered the city and renamed it in 323 BC ,  Ἡλιούπολις .  Ἡλιούπολις  Heliopolis comes from the word Helios, which is the God of the sun in Greek mythology, making Heliopolis 'the city of the Sun". After the death of Alexander the Great, the region fell to the Egyptian dynasty at the time, then later in 64BC was conquered by the Roman empire. D ecades later Baalbek became a Roman colony, and this ...