Ottoman Beirut · event 2 of 7

1831

Silk changes everything. European — chiefly French — demand for Lebanese silk turns Beirut into the export point for the mulberry groves of Mount Lebanon. The port is rebuilt and the population begins to climb from around ten thousand.

The Ottoman Beirut era

  1. 1516
  2. 1831
  3. 1860
  4. 1863
  5. 1866
  6. 1888
  7. 1916

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