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During the French Mandate, Abdel Hamid Karameh Street - one of the streets radiating from Etoile Square – was connected to Bab Idriss. There, a square was planned but never built. Today, Bab Idriss Square is framed by the restored Tanios and Sabbag buildings to the north, and on its southern side by the ABC and Kronfol-Daouk buildings.
Maarad street leading to Nejmeh Square Sidewalk cafes along Maarad street. Rue Maarad (Arabic: شارع المعرض) is a street in Beirut, Lebanon.The street was conceived during the French Mandate period as a central commercial street radiating from Étoile Square.
Beirut Souks, specifically Ajami Square and Trablous Street, have become a favorable location for street shows, exhibitions and concerts like the 2011 Miss Lebanon Pageant. Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (commonly BIEL) is a dedicated fair ground, constituting 15000 sq meters of display floor, that hosts diversely themed ...
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
The Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque (Arabic: جامع محمد الأمين), also referred to as the Blue Mosque, is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. In the 19th century, a zawiya was built on this site. Decades of preparation to obtain sufficient land adjacent to the old Zawiya led finally to the building of the new mosque.
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 fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
Google Maps Street View Trekker backpack being implemented on the sidewalk of the Hudson River Greenway in New York City. In late 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View, including 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) of the Australian Great Barrier Reef in 3D. The images are taken by special cameras which turn 360 degrees and take shots ...
The square was developed in the 1920s when the French decided to destroy the old souks and open streets and transformed it into a modern district. New Year's celebrations in 2019 were ranked in the top 10 in the world by National Geographic magazine. [1] During the 17 October Revolution, the square was the site of many protests and riots ...