Banias Sentence Examples

To the south Lebanon ends about the point where the river Litany bends westward, and at Banias.

After being defeated by Saladin at Banias, the Franks were compelled to make a treaty with the Moslem leader.

It was long known as Panium or Panics, a name that has survived in the modern Banias.

Banias is a poor village inhabited by about 350 Moslems; all round it are gardens of fruit-trees.

As the Barada escapes from the mountains through a narrow gorge, its waters spread out fan-like, in canals or "rivers," the name of one of which, Nahr Banias, retains a trace of Abana.

The town of Banias, with its castle, formed also a strong outpost against Damascus, and was the scene, in common with the other strongholds, of many desperate encounters between Moslems and Christians.