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Beirut este capitala Libanului și cel mai mare oraș din această țară, având peste două milioane de locuitori.
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / bay-ROOT; Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ) 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.
In 14 BC, during the reign of Herod the Great, Berytus became a colony, one of four in the Syria-Phoenicia region and the only one with full Italian rights ( ius Italicum) exempting its citizens from imperial taxation. Beirut was considered the most Roman city in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. [21]
Beirut: Vecini: Siria Israel: Fus orar: EET (UTC+2) Ora de vară: EEST (UTC+3) Populație; Densitate: 473 loc/km² - Estimare 2018: 6.100.075: Limbi oficiale: araba: Etnonim: Libanez: Guvernare; Sistem politic: Republică parlamentară: Președinte (d) Najib Mikati[*] Prim-ministrul Libanului (d) Hassan Diab[*] Legislativ: Parlament ...
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Excavations in the downtown area have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Arab, and Ottoman remains. Prior to 1975, the country was considered the banking capital of the Arab world and was widely known as the " Switzerland of the Middle East" due to numerous financial institutions based in Beirut.
Initially settled by the Phoenicians, it gained prominence under Roman rule in the 1st century bc. It was captured by the Arabs in ad 635. Christian Crusaders held Beirut (1110–1291), after which it was dominated by the Mamlūk dynasty. In 1516 it fell under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
