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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.
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 fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
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]
First enclosed as a formal urban space in the 1860s, the Municipality of Beirut modernized the square in 1878 as the main meeting place of the city. Beshara Effendi designed a garden with fountain and kiosks, overlooked by the Petit Serail – the seat of Beirut's governor general – as well as public buildings and souks. The tramway, built in ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Beirut, Lebanon This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The National Museum of Beirut (Arabic: متحف بيروت الوطنيّ, Matḥaf Bayrūt al-waṭanī) is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I , and the museum was officially opened in 1942.
Beit Beirut (Arabic: بيت بيروت, lit. 'House of Beirut') is a museum and urban cultural center serving as a war memorial museum and exhibition center dedicated to portraying the history of Beirut, with a particular focus on the Lebanese Civil War.