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  1. www.wikiwand.com › en › BeirutBeirut - Wikiwand

    Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the thirteenth-largest in the Arab world. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast. Beirut has been inhabited for more than 5,000 years, making it one of the oldest cities in the ...

  2. 40,211 (2009) [1] Director. Anne-Marie Ofeish [2] The National Museum of Beirut ( Arabic: متحف بيروت الوطنيّ, Matḥaf Bayrūt al-waṭanī) is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942. The museum has collections totaling about 100,000 ...

  3. ro.wikipedia.org › wiki › LibanLiban - Wikipedia

    Modifică date / text. Liban (numele oficial Republica Libaneză) este o țară în Asia de Sud-Vest ( Orientul Apropiat ), situată pe țărmul estic al Mării Mediterane. Se învecinează cu Siria la nord și est și cu Israel la sud.

  4. 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.

  5. 2 days ago · 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 ...

  6. Beirut, also known as The Negotiator in the United Kingdom, [3] is a 2018 American political thriller film [4] 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 ...

  7. wikitravel.org › en › BeirutBeirut - Wikitravel

    Sep 25, 2022 · Beirut ( Arabic: بيروت‎, French: Beyrouth) is the capital city of Lebanon with a population of approximately 2.1 million people in its metropolitan area. The city is on a relatively small headland jutting into the east Mediterranean. It is by far the biggest city in Lebanon. Due to Lebanon's small size the capital has always held the ...

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