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Sohmor
Town in Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sohmor (Arabic: سحمر) is a small town in the Beka'a Valley of Lebanon, situated in the Western Beqaa District and south of the Beqaa Governorate. It lies south of Lake Qaraoun on the Litani River.[1] It lies southwest of Machgara, northeast of Ain Et Tine, north of Yohmor, west of Mazret Al Chmis and northwest of Libbaya.
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In 1838, Eli Smith noted Sahmur as a village on the West side of the Beqaa Valley, north of Yohmor.[2] It is a Shiite village.[3]
It was the site of the 1984 Sohmor massacre committed by the Israel Defense Forces.[4][5]
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