Ottoman Beirut · event 4 of 7

1863

The road to Damascus. A French company opens the carriage road over the mountains to Damascus, and the railway follows in 1895. Beirut becomes the port for the Syrian interior, which is what it has substantially remained.

The Ottoman Beirut era

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

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