| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| Beirut |
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| (bay-ROOHT) Capital of Lebanon, located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea. | 1 |
| ‡ Often called “the Paris of the Middle East,” the city was badly damaged during Lebanon’s civil war in the 1970s and 1980s. It is now being rebuilt. | 2 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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