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BEIRUT:
The capital of the Lebanese Republic, has been considered, by
virtue of its strategic location, the crossroads between the
three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe and the gate way
to the east. Beirut was named Beroth by Phoenicians. It was
dwarfed by thriving Byblos, Sidon and Tyr. It was occupied by
the Romans in 64 BC.
It was named Colonia Juila Augusta Feilix Berythus and
aquired the rights of a Roman city -state. Its fame comes from
its school of law excelled under Septimus Severus (192-211AD).
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BYBLOS (JBEIL):
37 kms north of Beirut and claimed to be the oldest
continuously inhabited town in the world. Byblos is literally
cluttered with relics of the past. Fallen columns can be found
by the roadside and in the harbor. Gold, Silver and Copper
coins of the Greco-Roman period are found throughout the town,
you can see four main places in Byblos like its Castel by the
Crusaders in the12th and 13th centuries, the Egyptian temples
which dates back to 4th millenium, the Phoenician royal
necropolis which king Ahiram's sarcophagus, which bears one of
the oldest alphabetic inscriptions yet discovered in this
world and also, you can see the Roman amphitheater.
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