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Beirut is the capital of Lebanon. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world. It is on a hilly promontory on the eastern Mediterranean surrounded to the east by the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon.
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Beirut ( / beɪˈruːt / bay-ROOT; [3] Arabic: بيروت, romanized : Bayrūt ⓘ; French: Beyrouth) 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.
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (English: Universal Free Encyclopedia in Spanish) is a Spanish-language wiki-based online encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. It uses the MediaWiki software. It started as a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia.
On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians, and two attackers.
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ( Arabic: مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي بيروت, (previously known as Beirut International Airport) ( IATA: BEY, ICAO: OLBA) is the only operational commercial airport in Lebanon. It is located in the Southern Suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from the city center.
Beirut, also known as The Negotiator in the United Kingdom, is a 2018 American political thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Tony Gilroy. Set in 1982 during the Lebanese Civil War , the film stars Jon Hamm as Mason Skiles, a former U.S. diplomat who returns to service in Beirut in order to save a colleague from the group ...
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration. Today part of. Lebanon. Israel. Palestine. Syria. The Vilayet of Beirut ( Ottoman Turkish: ولايت بيروت, romanized : Vilâyet-i Beyrut; Arabic: ولاية بيروت) was a first-level administrative division ( vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire.
