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Saint Joseph University founded. Thamarāt al Funūn newspaper begins publication. [3] 1877 – Lisan al-Hal newspaper begins publication. [3] 1883 – Hôtel-Dieu de France founded. 1888 – Beirut was made capital of a vilayet (governorate) in Syria,[37] including the sanjaks (prefectures) Latakia, Tripoli, Beirut, Acre and Bekaa. 1894
The salvage excavations after 1993 have yielded new insights into the layout and history of this period of Beirut's history. Public architecture included several areas and buildings. [16] Mid-1st-century coins from Berytus bear the head of Tyche, goddess of fortune; [17] on the reverse, the city's symbol appears: a dolphin entwines an anchor.
Beirut's school of law was founded, it later became widely known in the surrounding region. Two of Rome's most famous jurists, Papinian and Ulpian (both natives of Phoenicia), were taught at the law school under the Severan emperors. 50: Saint Paul of Tarsus begins his third mission and preaches in Tyre.
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.
In 1911, Aftimus founded a consultant office in partnership with Emile Kacho who was also an engineer. Aftimus won the design competition for Beirut's City Hall in 1923, the municipal building still stands at Weygand and Foch crossroad. [4] Aftimus served as the minister of public works in the 1926-1927 government led by Auguste Basha Adib. [6]
Dodge was born in Beirut on November 17, 1922. Dodge was a member of a prominent American family who were closely involved with Lebanon for well over a century. [1] His father was Bayard Dodge, a former AUB president, his maternal grandfather was Howard Bliss, also a former president, and his great-grandfather was Daniel Bliss, who founded AUB in 1866. [2]
[citation needed] The American University of Beirut was founded in 1866, followed by the French St. Joseph's University in 1875. [ citation needed ] An intellectual guild that was formed at the same time gave new life to Arabic literature , which had stagnated under the Ottoman Empire.
AUB's Archives and Special Collections includes important documents related to the founding of the Syrian Protestant College in 1866 and also many materials (documents, maps, photographs, etc.) of interest to scholars of Lebanon and the region including the Beirut Codex, [60] a New Testament in Syriac, dating back to the ninth or tenth century ...