Baalbek (Baal`bek) (i.e. City of Baal, or the Sun), an ancient city of Syria, 35 m. NW. of Damascus; called by the Greeks, Heliopolis; once a place of great size, wealth, and splendour; now in ruins, the most conspicuous of which is the Great Temple to Baal, one of the most magnificent ruins of the East, covering an area of four acres.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ba`al * Baalism