Mandate & Independence · event 6 of 7

1966

The bank collapses. Intra Bank, the largest in Lebanon, fails, shaking the banking sector that the golden-age economy was built on. The city recovers, but the confidence does not fully return.

The Mandate & Independence era

  1. 1920
  2. 1932
  3. 1943
  4. 1948
  5. 1958
  6. 1966
  7. 1968

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