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بيروت (Bayrũt)

بيروت (Bayrũt, also called Beirut), the capital of لبنان (Lubnān or Liban or Lebanon), is located on the nation's central Mediterranean coast on a small, hilly, peninsula. It has a metropolitan population of 2.077 million in 2013.2 The tallest building is the Platinum residential tower (34 stories).3 The city became very important in the late Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye (Ottoman Empire) when its administrative status was changed. The Beirũt Rafic al-Hariri International Airport is regionally important.

YearPopulationPolitical entity
1900 CE118,0001Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye (Ottoman Empire)
2013 CE2,077,0003لبنان (Lubnān or Liban or Lebanon)

External references

skyline of Bayrũt

Historical maps

map showing part of the Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye (Ottoman Empire), 1900 CE

map of Yisra'el, Lubnān, Urdun and the Ghazzah Strip 2000 CE showing Bayrũt

Footnotes

1. Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987), "Tables of World's Largest Cities". It was the largest city in the area that is now ישראל (Yisra'el or Israel), لبنان (Lubnā or Liban or Lebanon), الادنن (al-'Urdunn or Urdun or Jordan) and the Gazzah (Ghazzah or Gaza) Strip in 1900 CE.
2. world-gazetteer.com, accessed 6/3/2013.
3. emporis.com, accessed 9/16/2013.