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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 ...
Sursock House built. 1866 – Syrian Protestant College established. 1868 – Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut established. 1875. Saint Joseph University founded. Thamarāt al Funūn newspaper begins publication. [3] 1877 – Lisan al-Hal newspaper begins publication.
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / bay-ROOT; [3] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ / b eɪ ˈ r uː t /) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, [4] which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the thirteenth-largest in the Arab world.
4,000–5,000 Lebanese civilians killed [1] 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 ...
September 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM. A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row more than five decades ago. Now, the ...
The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, [4] is a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as various militias and militants acting from within Lebanon. The conflict peaked in the 1980s, during the Lebanese Civil War. Israel occupied Southern Lebanon ...
The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias—in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.
The Lebanese Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities [5] and led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon.