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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]
1942 – National Museum of Beirut opens. 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
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.
[122] [125] As part of the accord, which ended 18 months of political paralysis, [126] Michel Suleiman became president and a national unity government was established, granting a veto to the opposition. [122] The agreement was a victory for opposition forces, as the government caved in to all their main demands. [125]
[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.
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 ...
Bayreuth (German pronunciation: [ˈbaɪʁɔʏt] ⓘ or [baɪˈʁɔʏt] ⓘ; Upper Franconian: Bareid, pronounced [ba(ː)ˈɾaɪ̯t]) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtel Mountains.
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.