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Beirut

national capital, Lebanon
Also known as: Bayrut, Berot, Beyrouth, Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus(Show More)
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Kamal Suleiman Salibi
Professor of History, American University of Beirut. Author of The Modern History of Lebanon and others.
Kamal Suleiman Salibi
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Beirut, capital, chief port, and largest city of Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean coast at the foot of the Lebanon Mountains. Beirut is a city of baffling contradictions whose character blends the sophisticated and cosmopolitan with the provincial and parochial. Before 1975 Beirut was widely considered the most thoroughly Westernized city in the Arab Middle East; after that, however, 15 years of civil war ravaged most parts of the city and eroded much...

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