Rayaq - Haouch Hala (Arabic: رياق), also romanized Rayak, is a Lebanese town in the Beqaa Governorate near the city of Zahlé.

[2] In 1838, Eli Smith noted both Reyak and Haush Hala as Christian villages in the Baalbek area.

[3] Prior to 1914 there was a broad-gauge railway from Aleppo through Hama and Homs which reached the Beirut to Damascus narrow-gauge line at Riyaq.

On August 7, 1933, two French aviators (Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos), aboard a Blériot 110, broke the world record for straight-line distance.

During the Syria campaign in July 1941, the British bombed the French base and Rayak depots held by Vichy regime troops.