Crossword clues for beirut
beirut
- Lebanese port
- Asian capital
- Mideastern capital
- Middle East capital
- Coastal road
- City announced part of coastal path
- Capital that is raised comes through British channel
- Flutter involving one sport generates capital
- Mideast capital
- Capital of Lebanon
- Lebanese capital
- Seaport and capital of Lebanon
- Lebanon's largest city
- City of Lebanon
- Cedar Revolution city
- Capital on the eastern Mediterranean
- Rough posting for a foreign correspondent
- Modern capital founded by the Phoenicians
- American University locale
- Troubled capital
- Mideast hub
- 1982 war zone
- Mediterranean port
- Lebanon's capital
- Mediterranean capital
- *Base of a fragrant tree?
- City once divided by the Green Line
- Capital on the Mediterranean coast
- Foreign capital whose name sounds like a water passage to San Francisco
- Capital and largest city of Lebanon
- Located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Lebanese capital, from Hebrew, literally "the wells," from be'erot, plural of be'er "well."
Wikipedia
Beirut ( ;; ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. No recent population census has been done but in 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to slightly less than 2 million as part of Greater Beirut. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast, Beirut is the country's largest and main seaport.
It is one of the oldest cities in the world, inhabited more than 5,000 years ago. The first historical mention of Beirut is found in the ancient Egyptian Tell el Amarna letters dating from the 15th century BC. The Beirut River runs south to north on the eastern edge of the city.
Beirut is Lebanon's seat of government and plays a central role in the Lebanese economy, with many banks and corporations based in its Central District, Badaro, Rue Verdun, Hamra and Ashrafieh. Following the destructive Lebanese Civil War, Beirut's cultural landscape underwent major reconstruction. Identified and graded for accountancy, advertising, banking/finance and law, Beirut is ranked as a Beta World City by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
In May 2015, Beirut was officially recognized as one of the New7Wonders Cities together with Vigan, Doha, Durban, Havana, Kuala Lumpur, and La Paz.
Beirut is the capital city of Lebanon.
Beirut, Beyrut or Bayrut may also refer to:
Beirut is an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zach Condon, and later expanded into a band. Beirut's music combines elements of indie-rock and world music. The band's first performances were in New York, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar. Despite their name, Beirut had never performed in Lebanon until they appeared at the Byblos International Festival in August 2014.
Here is an explanation of band's name by Condon: “One of the reasons I named the band after that city was the fact that it’s seen a lot of conflict. It’s not a political position. I worried about that from the beginning. But it was such a catchy name. I mean, if things go down that are truly horrible, I’ll change it. But not now. It’s still a good analogy for my music. I haven’t been to Beirut, but I imagine it as this chic urban city surrounded by the ancient Christian and Muslim worlds. The place where things collide”.
Usage examples of "beirut".
You could go by air, by long sea to Basrah, by train to Marseilles and by boat to Beirut and across the desert by car.
Except when a group took all the roles in a section, as with the Druze of Beirut.
The regular Beirut game continued, and probably he had scored some more points for blowing up some Hizbollah, and perhaps would also receive bonus points if the Druze won.
We must ride through the desert mountain lands to Emesa, many miles away, and cross the Orontes there, then down into Baalbec, and so back to Beirut.
Beirut is a perfect Hobbesian state of nature, but it is probably the closest thing to it that exists in the world today.
Thefirst Lebanese civil war erupts and some 15,000 American troops are sent to Beirut to help stabilize the situation.
The Lebanese government of President Amin Gemayel splinters after Shiite Muslims and Druse in West Beirut launch a revolt against the Lebanese army.
Marine peacekeeping force, the suicide bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut and the Marine headquarters, the departure of the Marines from Lebanon, and the ongoingfighting in the Lebanese civil war that accompanied all these momentous events.
South Lebanon and the predominantly Muslim western half of Beirut became the power base of the PLO and various Lebanese Muslim militias, while the Christian eastern half of Beirut and the Christian enclave on Mt.
Like thousands of other Palestinian and Lebanese families, this extended clan had been driven out of the Palestinian refugee camps and neighborhoods on the southern edge of Beirut by merciless Israeli bombing and shelling and were desperately looking for empty apartments closer to the heart of West Beirut, where thefighting had yet to encroach.
A Maronite Christian, Hage had lived for years in the United States before returning to Beirut, and had developed important contacts in Washington, including Richard Perle, the influential neoconservative and outside advisor to the Pentagon.
In the eight months since then Khalef had been reportedly seen in places as far apart as Rawalpindi and Beirut.
It was Scottie who had pulled her husband off his first tour in Kabul, in the middle of the Soviet-Afghan war and sent him to Beirut.
Beirut, Tripoli, Baghdad, out of Islamabad and Karachi, out of Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and Dubai, the wives and children of businessmen and diplomats, causing room shortages in Athens hotels, adding stories, new stories all the time.
Sometimes I was helped, by information about you given to me by John the touching importance you attached to events in Beirut, for instance, or the fact that you were working on a story about telephone sex lines.