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Laodicea in Phoenicia was built upon the same site on a more conventional Hellenistic plan. Present-day Beirut overlies this ancient one, and little archaeology was carried out until after the civil war in 1991. The salvage excavations after 1993 have yielded new insights into the layout and history of this period of Beirut's history.
El-Masri, Sami (1999) Beirut: The City and its Crafts in the Medieval Period. Ph.D. Dissertation, Freie Universität, Berlin. Mongne, Pascal (1996) « Bey 008 bis, Zone des Souks, Dégagement du fossé médiéval », Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises 1 :270-293.
Green Line established between mainly Muslim factions in West Beirut and the Christian Lebanese Front in East Beirut. Centre for Arab Unity Studies founded. [15] 1976 – al-Murābiṭ newspaper begins publication. [3] 1977 – Mitri El Nammar takes office as Governor of Beirut. 1978 – Syrian siege of Achrafiyeh, the main Christian district ...
Seafront Towers at Zaitunay Bay, Downtown Beirut. Archaeological artifacts show Beirut was settled back to the Iron Age. [8] Beirut was a city of glory during the Roman era. It then became occupied by different civilizations some of which were the Crusaders in 1109, the Mamluks in 1291 and then Ottomans who stayed in Lebanon for 400 years until ...
The Beirut Central District is the historical and geographical core of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Also called downtown Beirut, [2] it has been described as the “vibrant financial, commercial, and administrative hub of the country.” [3] It is thousands of years old, with a traditional focus of business, finance, culture, and leisure. [4]
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / ⓘ bay-ROOT; [4] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, [5] which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
The flag of Beirut features an open book with the motto "Berytus Nutrix Legum" (Beirut, Mother of Laws) on one side and its Arabic translation "بيروت أم الشرائع" on the other. The law school of Beirut supplied the Roman Empire, especially its eastern provinces, with lawyers and magistrates for three centuries until the school's ...
The Barakat House, known today as Beit Beirut, was constructed in 1924 by Nicholas Barakat and his wife Victoria, members of Beirut’s Greek Orthodox bourgeoisie, who purchased the land, plot number 1237, and commissioned Youssef Aftimus, a notable Lebanese architect who designed the Beirut's City Hall, for the construction of the building with Aftimus designing the ground and first floors.