Beirut City Through the Ages

 Beirut City Through the Ages:

Beirut was built by the people of (Byblos) four thousand years ago, and soon grew and became a population and became an independent kingdom on the coast, which was known as Phenicia and worshiped its own god called "Baal Perit" any god or master of Beirut, This is the first sign of the city of Beirut dating back to the fifteenth century BC, where it was mentioned in the letters of Amarna the cuneiform, which mentions "Ammonera" king of "Perret." He sent three letters to the pharaoh. King of Byblos. Its first settlements were established on the island of the middle of its river, which was buried over time.
The Egyptians conquered the eastern coast of the Mediterranean during the expulsion from Egypt. After the Egyptians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Persians took control of Phenicia, including Beirut, before Alexander the Great defeated the Persians and annexed the city to his empire. In 140 BC, Diodotus Trevon, the Hellenic king, conquered and destroyed it during his struggle with the Seventh Anuchus to control the throne of the Seleucid state. It was then reconstructed in Hellenic style and called "Phoenician Odyssey" and sometimes "Canaanite Odyssey". The city is located today on the ruins of those built by Greece, as evidenced by excavations that were restored after the end of the civil war in 1991. A 1994 excavation indicates that the modern "Souk El Tawila" street is the development of an old Hellenic or Roman street.
Old Beirut was an important commercial center because of its privileged location on the Mediterranean coast
Which has replaced greedy invaders