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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 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.
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]
Since 2012 the APLH saw most of its efforts focused on public demonstrations, scientific research, technical studies, legal complaints and lawsuits to protest and protect such archaeological sites as the Roman Hippodrome of Beirut, the Roman Theater of Beirutand site BEY194; slip ways for Phoenician ships, known as the alleged 2nd Phoenician ...
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.
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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 area includes many neighborhoods such as Hamra, Ras Beirut, Mousaitbeh, and Ain El Mreisseh [].Historically, West Beirut has played an important cultural and political role in Lebanon, and is characterized by prestigious universities like the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Lebanese American University (LAU), as well as cultural landmarks like the Corniche and several cinemas ...