Crossword-Solution: ZAHLE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Half an hour, on the other side of it, is the village Kerak, at the foot of the Djebel Sannin; it consists of about one hundred and fifty-houses and has some gardens in the plain, which are watered by a branch of the Berdoun, or river of Zahle.

Kerak is entirely inhabited by Turks; it belongs to: ZAHLE [p.5] the dominions of the Emir of the Druses, who some years ago took it by force from the Emir of Baalbec.

The river Berdoun [Arabic] here issues from a narrow valley into the plain and waters the gardens of Zahle.

Twenty-five years ago there were only two hundred houses at Zahle: it is now one of the principal towns in the territory of the Emir Beshir.

The river of Zahle, or Berdoun, forms the frontier of the Bekaa, which it separates from the territory belonging to the Emir of Baalbec, called Belad Baalbec; so that whatever is northward from the bridge of the Berdoun, situated in the valley, a quarter of an hour below Zahle, belongs to Belad Baalbec; and whatever is south-ward, to the Bekaa.