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The description Paris of the East has been applied to a large number of ... Beirut, Lebanon [3] Bucharest, Romania [4] Budapest, Hungary [5] Hanoi, Vietnam [6 ...
This is a list of cities and towns in Lebanon [1] distributed according to district. There are total 1000 districts. 56.21% of the population lives in 19 cities and towns, which gives the average 2,158 people per town.
Bucharest is a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. The city became the capital in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art.
Lebanon, [b] officially the Republic of Lebanon, [c] is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, [11] it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west; Cyprus lies a short distance from the coastline ...
The Paris treaty called for the creation of ad hoc Divans in Moldavia and Wallachia, the first venue for the advocacy of a union between the two countries. Bucharest returned only delegates from the unionist Partida NaĊ£ionala to the new forums, but the overall majority in Wallachia was constituted of anti-unionists conservatives; on January 22 ...
This central highland between the Lebanon Mountains and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains is about 177 kilometres (110 mi) in length and 9.6 to 16 kilometers wide and has an average elevation of 762 metres (2,500 ft). [1] Its middle section spreads out more than its two extremities.
Israeli attacks on the Hezbollah group in Lebanon have killed more than 1,000 people and wounded 6,000 in the past two weeks, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
It is bordered to the east, southeast and southwest by the Syrian, Arabian and Sinai deserts, respectively. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Some definitions include parts of these deserts in the region. [ 1 ] The Litani River in southern Lebanon is commonly considered the dividing line between the Southern Levant and the Northern Levant (i.e. Syria ), [ 1 ] [ 2 ...