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The Lebanese Armed Forces website has pictures of several service and military-regional flags here; click on a badge to view the corresponding flag. Five of the latter are listed, corresponding to five of the country's six governorates (excluding, for some reason, Nabatiya).
Eugene Ipavec, 10 Jul 2007
Source for details below: https://www.lebarmy.gov.lb/en/insignia_and_banners/Army%20Flag%20%26%20Insignia
![[Beirut Military Region (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb^beyro.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website
Its flag is white with two narrow light blue horizontal stripes at hoist and
at fly. The emblem is placed on the white field. The emblem is composed of a
rock emerging from the sea, “Rock of Raouche” and a flashing beacon, “Flare of
Beirut”. Both are of most prominent features of the city, it symbolizes the will
to help and guide the mariners.
Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
![[Bekaa Military Region (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb^bekaa.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website
A tatweel ("_") for a letter I could not make out, and no attempt of adding vowels, no attempt at interpretation of the teh marbuta etc.: "qbarẗ sðmŝ_ almtaʕ" = "قبارة سظمشـ
المتاع
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Jul 2007
I don't know what this means, but the spelling is "qa-ya-alif-dal-ta marbutah" (qayadat) "mim-nun-tet-qa-ta" (mantakat) "alif-lam-ba-qa-alif-ayin" (al-baqa'a).
Dov Gutterman, 12 Jul 2007
The colonnade is a surviving part of the famous temple of Jupiter in Baalbek.
Eugene Ipavec, 15 Jul 2007
Its flag is white with two narrow brown horizontal stripes at hoist and at
fly. The emblem is placed on the white field. The emblem is composed of the six
columns of Baalbek castle, ahead of a green mountain symbolizing the fertility
nature of Bekaa region and a rising sun at the rear top as a reminder of the
ancient name of the city Baalbek “Heliopolis City of the sun”.
Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
![[Mount Lebanon Military Region (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb^monlb.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website
Its flag is pale blue with two narrow lilac horizontal stripes at hoist and
at fly. The emblem is placed on the pale blue field. The emblem is composed of a
Laurel Wreath encircling an illustration that depicts the geographic nature of
the region, extending from sea side to coastal plain and reaching a high chain
of mountains well known as mount-Lebanon. It symbolizes impregnability, pride
and donation.
Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
![[North Military Region (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb^nord.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website
Its flag is pale green with two narrow green horizontal stripes at hoist and
at fly. The emblem is placed on the pale green field. The emblem is composed of
a Laurel Wreath embracing cedar trees and the castle of Tripoli; two of most
important features in the region. A sword in the middle is a denotation of
command and two red lines at the bottom signifying the blood of the martyrs with
two words "North Region".
Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
![[South Military Region (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb^sud.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website
Its flag is pale green with two narrow green horizontal stripes at hoist and
at fly. The emblem is placed on the pale green field. The emblem is composed of
map of the south, symbolizing persistence and adherence to each grain of its
soil, a fortress symbolizing resistance and endurance and an eagle a symbol of
strength and pride.
Zoltan Horvath, 26 June 2024
