Beirut, Lebanon

Beirut, on the Mediterranean Sea in Lebanon, suffered in the 1970s and 1980s from civil warfare between Christian and Muslim inhabitants. Most of the city’s high-rise buildings and hotels located on the seashore were destroyed or damaged by the fighting.

Len Jossel/Photo Researchers, Inc.

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Lebanon (country); Beirut

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