Ottoman Beirut · event 5 of 7

1866

A university. American Presbyterian missionaries found the Syrian Protestant College, which becomes the American University of Beirut. The Jesuit Université Saint-Joseph follows in 1875. Between them they educate the intellectual class of the modern Arab world.

The Ottoman Beirut era

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

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