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Beirut V (Nahr Beirut, Beirut River) was discovered by Dillenseger and said to be in an orchard of mulberry trees on the left bank of the river, near the river mouth, and to be close to the railway station and bridge to Tripoli. Levallois flints and bones and similar surface material were found amongst brecciated deposits. [9]
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 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 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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Lebanese Civil War Part of the Cold War, Arab Cold War, Arab–Israeli conflict, Iran–Israel and Iran–Saudi proxy wars Left-to-right from top: Monument at Martyrs' Square in the city of Beirut ; the USS New Jersey firing a salvo off of the Lebanese coast; smoke seen rising from the ruins of the ...
The PLO moved its primary base of operations to Beirut in the early 1970s, after Black September in Jordan.The presence of Palestinian forces was one of the main reasons that led to a conflict in Lebanon in 1975–1976 which ended with the occupation of Lebanon by peacekeeping forces (the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon). [2]
The Sabra and Shatila [a] massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias—in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.
The law school of Berytus (also known as the law school of Beirut) was a center for the study of Roman law in classical antiquity located in Berytus (modern-day Beirut, Lebanon). It flourished under the patronage of the Roman emperors and functioned as the Roman Empire 's preeminent center of jurisprudence until its destruction in AD 551.