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Beirut Capital of Lebanon

School:I.E.S La Senda Getafe

Class 3D Year:2014/2015

Done by Karim Askoul

Geography of Beirut

Beirut sits on a peninsula extending westward into the Mediterranean Sea about 94 km north of the Lebanon-Palastine border. Beirut Governorate occupies 18 square kilometres, and the city's metropolitan area 67 square kilometres.

Urban planningAt the end of the last century, after the ending of the Lebanese war, a company was founded in Beirut called Solidere, has restored the reconstruction of downtown Beirut to preserve the historical heritage of the base, and it has worked to preserve the effects that have succeeded in doing so with the creation of buildings, infrastructure and service implementation and urban planning.

Infrastructure of Beirut

The Lebanese capital’s infrastructure is among the worst of cities across the world. According to a ranking by Global Investments reported by Byblos Bank’s Lebanon 204th of 221 cities.And the same thing for streets.

Environmental issuesBeirut is confronting a broad range of serious environmental and natural resource problems. The country faces a looming water shortage, its roads are polluted with deadly levels of micro-particles, and its waterways and coastlines are littered with garbage and full of toxic pollutants.

HistoryBeirut's history goes back more than 5,000 years.According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, its antiquity is indicated by its name, derived from the Canaanite-Phoenician be'erot ("wells"), referring to the underground water table that is still tapped by the local inhabitants for general use.Excavations in the downtown area have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader and Ottoman remains.

War histories of BeirutIn Beirut have happened many wars and they are:1:1943 Lebanon starts (Beirut) after the independence from France..2:1975 war between Lebanese people(christians and Musilmans) 3.1982 Isreal in Beirut In 1990 the war between Lebanese people finish after a meeting happened in Saudi Arabia for finishing this war. This is a very famous building in the war of 1975 because Christians and Musilmans was each in a part

Sources of Informations

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2012/Jun-06/175865-lebanon-faces-environment-problems-due-to-development.ashx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut