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national capital, Lebanon
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Also known as: Bayrut, Berot, Beyrouth, Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus
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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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Arabic:
Bayrūt
French:
Beyrouth
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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 of the lustre that had formerly concealed the Arab—as distinct from the Levantine—side of its character. Despite the sectarian and ideological passions unleashed by the ...(100 of 3175 words)

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