Phoenician & Roman Berytus · event 3 of 5

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The law school. The Law School of Berytus is flourishing by the third century and becomes the pre-eminent school of Roman law anywhere. Its jurists are quoted throughout Justinian’s Digest, which is the foundation of the civil law tradition of continental Europe and Latin America.

The Phoenician & Roman Berytus era

  1. 1350 BC
  2. 15 BC
  3. 239
  4. 551
  5. 1110

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