Greater Beirut (Arabic: بيروت الكبرى) is the urban agglomeration comprising the city of Beirut (Beirut Governorate) and the adjacent municipalities over...
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Beirut (/beɪˈruːt/ bay-ROOT; Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014[update], Greater Beirut has a population...
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There are about 2.5 million people in Beirut and its suburbs (Greater Beirut). Beirut (Greater Beirut) Beirut Governorate is a diverse governorate containing...
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Dahieh (redirect from South Beirut)
countryside. By the start of 1975, 45% of Lebanese Shiites were living in Greater Beirut.[page needed] Dahieh's population further increased during the Civil...
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4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7...
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Beirut and Greater Beirut. The other Lebanese Christians and non-native Christian communities are concentrated in similar areas like in east Beirut (northern...
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are funded by the government and by foreign agencies, and include the Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and the Litani River Authority. A large number...
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Ashrafieh ABC Mall Verdun Beirut Souks ABC Department Store, Dbayeh Beirut Mall, Chyah Centre Galaxy, Chyah City Center Beirut, Hazmiyeh City Mall(Previously...
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Ain El Remmaneh (category Neighbourhoods of Greater Beirut)
the Baabda district of Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, a suburb of Beirut and part of Greater Beirut. In the 1950s, the populous town was known for gathering intellectuals...
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peacekeeping Multinational Force (MNF II) be deployed in and around the Greater Beirut area to maintain order, although the political objectives of this deployment...
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Multinational Force in Lebanon (section Beirut I)
at Beirut International Airport as a 1,400-man force which also provided external-security troops at U.S. diplomatic facilities in the greater Beirut area...
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have fled the country, although there remains a Greek community in Beirut (Greater Beirut) as well as in the aforementioned Koura District. There are about...
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Look up Beirut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beirut is the capital city of Lebanon. Beirut, Beyrut or Bayrut may also refer to: Greater Beirut, an urban...
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Bourj Hammoud (category Neighbourhoods of Greater Beirut)
in Lebanon located north-east of the capital Beirut, in the Matn District, and is part of Greater Beirut. The town is heavily populated by Lebanese Armenians...
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Haret Hreik (category Neighbourhoods of Greater Beirut)
Shia and Maronite Christian municipality, in the Dahieh suburbs, south of Beirut, Lebanon. It is part of the Baabda District. Once an agricultural and Christian...
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Chyah (category Greater Beirut)
the Lebanese capital of Beirut and is part of Greater Beirut. Chiyah is located in the southwest suburbs of the capital Beirut, bordered by Haret Hreik...
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Rabieh (category Greater Beirut)
suburban area on the northern edge of Greater Beirut, Lebanon, about 13 kilometers driving distance from Beirut. It is located in the foothills of Mount...
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Baabda (category Greater Beirut)
in Baabda as the official presidential residence, on a hill overlooking Beirut. It remains the residence of the president of Lebanon. The first president...
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Hazmieh (category Greater Beirut)
Lebanon, and a suburb of Beirut, part of Greater Beirut. Hazmieh covers an area of 2.73 square kilometers directly southeast of Beirut, at an elevation of...
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Jounieh (category Greater Beirut)
جونية) is a coastal city in Keserwan District, about 16 km (10 mi) north of Beirut, Lebanon. Since 2017, it has been the capital of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate...
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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...
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religion and with Beirut as its capital. The new territory was granted a flag, merging the French flag with the Lebanese cedar. The term Greater Lebanon alludes...
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Jdeideh (category Greater Beirut)
approximately 6 km2. It is located in the northern suburbs of Beirut city that comprise Greater Beirut. The municipality is formed of three villages of Jdeidet...
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middle class. The Lebanese Protestant Christians live primarily in Beirut (Greater Beirut). Under the terms of an unwritten agreement known as the National...
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Bourj el-Barajneh (category Neighbourhoods of Greater Beirut)
municipality located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, in Lebanon. The municipality lies between Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport and the town...
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International Airport, Larnaca, Cyprus, and several landing zones in the greater Beirut area. UH-60 "Blackhawks" from C Co 7/158th Aviation Regiment, 12th Aviation...
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In 1975, Khuri published From Village to Suburb: Order and Change in Greater Beirut, widely regarded as a pioneering case study of suburbs in the Middle...
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Achrafieh (redirect from Ashrafieh, Beirut)
Achrafieh (Arabic: الأشرفية) is an upper-class area in eastern Beirut, Lebanon. In strictly administrative terms, the name refers to a sector (secteur)...
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During the 1982 Lebanon War, the city of Beirut was besieged by Israel following the breakdown of the ceasefire that had been imposed by the United Nations...
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Governorate water reached customers only three times a week in 2007. In Greater Beirut, water supply drops to 3 hours per day during the summer. According...
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