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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]
View of Beirut in 1950; 1943 – Beirut becomes capital city of independent Lebanon. 1946 Nicolas Rizk takes office as Governor of Beirut. Al-Hayat newspaper begins publication. 1950 – Population: 181,271. [8] Beirut in 1950; 1951 – Lebanese University and Lycée Franco-Libanais Verdun founded. 1952 George Assi takes office as Governor of ...
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t /, bay-ROOT; [4] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ ; French: Beyrouth ⓘ) 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.
Military history of Beirut (4 C, 8 P) Pages in category "History of Beirut" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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 ...
Hamas, which has been the governing body in the Gaza Strip since 2006, was behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the deadliest attack in the country’s history. The current war in Gaza is ...
Beirut was conquered by Agrippa and the city was renamed in honour of the emperor's daughter, Julia; its full name became Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus. 27 BC: the Pax Romana period, inhabitants of the principal Phoenician cities of Byblos, Sidon, and Tyre were granted Roman citizenship, while economic and intellectual activities flourished.
When war last came to the edges of Lebanon's capital nearly two decades ago, Bilal Sahlab drove his family to a secluded mountain town, rented an apartment and waited out the bombing. Residents of ...