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18-542: The district is characterized by the presence of a relatively large coastal plain , with high mountains to the east. The largest cities in Akkar are Halba, Bire Akkar and Al-Qoubaiyat . Akkar has many important Roman and Arabic archaeological sites. One of the most famous archaeological sites and the birthplace of the Roman emperor Severus Alexander (d.235) is the Tell of Arqa near

36-637: A sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and an upland area. Some of the largest coastal plains are in Alaska and the southeastern United States . The Gulf Coastal Plain of North America extends northwards from the Gulf of Mexico along the Lower Mississippi River to the Ohio River , which is a distance of about 981 miles (1,579 km). The Atlantic Coastal Plain runs from

54-574: Is strategically importent as it is the northen gateway into Syria . this is why several castles were built in that area and in Syria. The most notable one is probebly Krak des Chevaliers in Syria. During the 19th century the Mir‘abi families of beys and pashas bought many lands in the area, which France found it helpfull with their Mandate over Lebanon. Up to the 1958 Syrian land reforms, the local population of Akkar could move freely in and out of Syria. During

72-698: The Deccan Plateau , along the western and eastern coasts of India. They extend for about 6,150 km from the Rann of Kutch in the west to West Bengal in the east. They are broadly divided into the Western Coastal Plains and the Eastern Coastal Plains . The two coastal plains meet at Kanyakumari , the southernmost tip of the Indian mainland. The eastern coastal plain is located between The Bay of Bengal and

90-591: The District's 309,517 voters were roughly 69% Sunni , 13% Greek Orthodox , 10% Maronite Catholics , 5% Alawite , 1% Shia , and 2% others. This region is home to the second-largest population of Alawites in Lebanon. Turkish people form a majority in Kouachra and Aydamun . Coastal plain A coastal plain (also coastal plains , coastal lowland , coastal lowlands ) is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to

108-730: The Gulf of Kutch in its westernmost corner and stretches across the Gulf of Khambhat , and southwards through Konkan and Kanara region and further down along the Malabar through Cape Comorin in the southernmost region of mainland India forming the Western coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean . and runs further from Cape Comorin towards north east through the Coromandal Coast , Northern Circars and Utkal Plains extends until

126-478: The New York Bight to Florida. Coastal plains can form in one of two ways. Some start as a continental shelf , a flat piece of land located below sea level, and are created when the ocean level falls, exposing the land. Others develop when river currents carry sediment into the ocean, which is deposited and builds up over time until it forms a coastal plain. The Coastal Plains of India lie on either side of

144-480: The cochin jews and Syriac Nasranis along the southernmost region of South India . The Chola Empire established vast Tamil influence across South East Asian region across Indonesia , Java , Bali and Sumatra . This brought South Indian Heritage to Cambodia , Indonesia and Bali where the Balinese Hindu traditions still thrives. This also lead to intermingling between coastal India and

162-657: The west asian world, particularly along the South West Indian Coastline along the Arabian Sea. Several west Asian communities have also settled and become part of the diversity of coastal south west India. These include the Parsis , Bohras and Baghdadi Jews in the westernmost region, The descendants of west asian and mediterranean traders like The Bearys of Kanara region and the Mappilas along Malabar region, and

180-484: The 1970's the peasants of Akkar formed an alliance to fight the land owners and the system of which 3% of the population held about 73% of the land. They were led by Khalid Saghiya, a Syrian Baathist lawyer from Baynu. Following Black September in Jordan , firearms were accessible to all. A fact that escalated the revolt. The involvement of Syria in the area as well as the diverse population led to many rivalries. Franjieh and

198-474: The Phalange were rivals. Peasant laborers clashed with landlords, while Jurd clans, though occasionally in conflict with one another, had formed an alliance against the beys. Eventualy the discovey of oil in the gulf led to mass imigration, sparing the region and its population from the fate that came to many other parts of Lebanon. Akkar is divided into the following regions: As of 2022, the religious make-up of

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216-661: The central zone of the Indo-Iranian language families including Urdu and Persian and languages belonging to the eastern zone of Indo Iranian language family including Odia and Bengali . The region also has speakers of Semitic languages like Arabic , Hebrew and Aramaic . The common elements of the people of coastal India includes cuisine that consists of agrarian and coastal products and clothing that involves long flowing drapes with bare midriff for both men and women suited for humid and warm climate. Throughout coastal India women wear drapes called saree in various styles. In

234-498: The eastern Ghats and the western coastal plain is located between the Arabian Sea and the western Ghats. This article related to topography is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Coastal India Coastal India is a geo-cultural region in the Indian subcontinent that spans the entire coastline of India.(7516.6 km; Mainland: 5422.6 km, Island Territories: 2094 km) Coastal India spans from

252-617: The easternmost Corner of shoreline near the Sunderbans along the Bay of Bengal making the Eastern Coastline. There are many beaches and springs here, as well as beautiful sea and oceans like the Arabian Sea. The people along coastal India exhibit vast diversity along an underlying commonality as a result of its coastal topography and sea trade between west Asian Mediterranean traders along its west coastline . The region includes Gujaratis in

270-561: The south east Asia particularly in the South eastern Cholamandalam coastline along the Bay of Bengal. The linguistic diversity of Coastal India includes languages of the Dravidian language family including Malayalam , Tamil , Telugu , Tulu , Beary and Kannada ; languages belonging to the western zone of Indo Iranian language families including Gujarati , Marathi , Konkani , languages belonging to

288-592: The town of Miniara . Several prehistoric sites were found in the Akkar plain foothills that were suggested to have been used by the Heavy Neolithic Qaraoun culture at the dawn of the Neolithic Revolution . Akkar can be divided into 7 parts: Qaitea (القيطع), Jouma (الجومة), Dreib (الدريب), Jabal Akroum (جبل أكروم), Wadi Khaled (وادي خالد), Cheft (الشفت) and As-Sahel (السهل). The Akkar area

306-425: The western corner of the region the drapes are called as Dhoti for men. and Chaniya choli for women, further southwards the drapes are called as lungi or mundu for men. and veshti for women. Towards the southernmost tip of coastal south western India the social system of inheritance was once matrilineal. There are various festivals celebrated in the coastal states centered on deities. The tourism

324-557: The westernmost region, Maharashtrians , Konkanis , Tuluvas , Bearys and Malayalis across western coastline, and Tamilians , the Telugus , Odia and the Bengali people across the eastern coastline along the Bay of Bengal. A thriving trade existed between the Mediterranean world and Coastal Indian regions This led to significant intermingling between the people of Coastal India and

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