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The Beit Beirut in 2011. The Museum and Urban Cultural Center of Beirut or colloquially; Bayt Beirut/Barakat (Arabic: بيت بيروت / بركات; literally "the house of Beirut/Barakat") is a venue serving as a war memorial museum and artwork showcasing center dedicated to portraying the history of Beirut, with a particular focus on the Lebanese Civil War from artistic point of views.
Beirut is a destination for tourists from both the Arab world and West. [130] In Travel + Leisure magazine's World Best Awards 2006, it was ranked the 9th best city in the world. [131] That list was voted upon shortly before the 2006 Lebanon War broke out, but in 2008 The Guardian listed Beirut as one of its top ten cities in the world. [132]
History of Beirut. View of the Beirut Peninsula, 2015. The earliest settlement of Beirut was on an island in the Beirut River, but the channel that separated it from the banks silted up and the island ceased to be. Excavations in the downtown area have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, and Ottoman ...
1938 – Al Akhbar newspaper begins publication. 1941 – Eastern Times newspaper begins publication. [3] 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.
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.
This is a list of largest cities in the Arab world. ... Country City Population Founding date ... Beirut: 2,600,000
Siege of Beirut. During the 1982 Lebanon War, the city of Beirut was besieged by Israel following the breakdown of the ceasefire that had been imposed by the United Nations amidst the Lebanese Civil War. Beginning in mid-June, the two-month-long siege resulted in the expulsion of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from Beirut and the ...
40,211 (2009) [1] Director. Anne-Marie Ofeish [2] The National Museum of Beirut (Arabic: متحف بيروت الوطنيّ, Matḥaf Bayrūt al-waṭanī) is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942. The museum has collections totaling about 100,000 ...