War & Reconstruction · event 1 of 13

1975

The war begins. On 13 April an ambush of a bus in Ain el-Rummaneh starts fifteen years of civil war. The Green Line forms through downtown within months, dividing the city until 1990.

The War & Reconstruction era

  1. 1975
  2. 1976
  3. 1982
  4. 1983
  5. 1989
  6. 1991
  7. 1994
  8. 2005
  9. 2006
  10. 2011
  11. 2019
  12. 2020
  13. 2023

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