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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. Before the
civil war
it was a cultural center of the
Arab
World, a major international financial,
banking
and
media
center and was called the
Switzerland
of the Middle East. It was called the
Paris
of the Middle East.
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Sunset in Beirut, Lebanon
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View from bickfaya, Beirut, Lebanon
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Beirut Downtown, Lebanon
- Linda Jones Hall,
Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity,
2004.
- Samir Kassir,
Histoire de Beyrouth,
Fayard 2003.
- Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (
ISBN
0-691-03169-X
), p. 69.
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