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Bourj Hammoud. Bourj Hammoud (also spelled Burj Hammud; Arabic: بُرْجُ حَمُّودٍ; Armenian: Պուրճ Համուտ) is a town and municipality in Lebanon located north-east of the capital Beirut, in the Matn District, and is part of Greater Beirut. The town is heavily populated by Lebanese Armenians. Bourj Hammoud is a mixed ...
Bourj Hammoud (Armenian: Պուրճ Համուտ, Arabic: برج حموﺪ) is a suburb in east Beirut, Lebanon in the Metn district. The suburb is heavily populated by Armenians as it is where most survivors of the Armenian genocide settled. Bourj Hammoud is an industrious area and is one of the most densely populated cities in the Middle East.
College de la Sagesse St Elie-Clemenceau - Rue Clémenceau. College La Sagesse St Maron – Jdeideh – Metn ; sagessesmj.edu.lb. A & C Haydakos High School College – andc.college.edu.lb. Ahliah school. Al-Makassed Philanthropic Islamic Association of Beirut – makassed.org [clarification needed] Al Bayader Beirut School.
Matn District. Matn (Arabic: قضاء المتن, Qaḍāʾ al-Matn), sometimes spelled Metn (or preceded by the article El, as in El Matn), is a district (qadaa) in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. [1] The district capital is Jdeideh (followed to Jdeideh, Bouchrieh, El Sedd Municipality).
Beirut River. The Beirut River (Arabic: نهر بيروت, Nahr Bayrūt) is a river in Lebanon separating the city of Beirut from its eastern suburbs, primarily Bourj Hammoud and Sin el Fil. The river flows mostly east to west from snow drains and springs on the western slopes of Mount Kneisseh and the southern end of Mount Sannine [1] near the ...
1952. Abolished. 1957. Number of members. 1 ( Armenian Orthodox) MP. Dikran Tosbath (1953-1957) The Bourj Hammoud electoral district ( Arabic: دائرة برج حمود) or the Eight Constituency was an electoral district in Lebanon, used in the 1953 parliamentary election. The district elected a single Armenian Orthodox parliamentarian.
The Bourj Hammoud Massacre was a bloody armed robbery that took place in a jewelry shop in the Bourj Hammoud quarter, Lebanon, in 1985.Five people lost their lives; the three perpetrators were arrested by the Lebanese Internal Security Forces and sentenced to death but succeeded in escaping from prison and have vanished without trace.
Hoping to benefit from the absence of other opposition candidates in Bourj Hammoud, the Lebanese Communist Party fielded Artin Madoyan. 4,696 out of the 15,895 registered voters (29.54%) cast their ballots on July 12, 1953. The electoral participation in Bourj Hammoud was the lowest in all of the Mount Lebanon Governorate.