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  1. Baalbeck was baptized "Heliopolis", 
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  3. "City of the Sun" during the Hellenistic 
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  5. period (333-64 B.C.). The Greeks 
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  7. identified Helios, god of the sun with 
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  9. Hadad, Syrian god of the sky.