The city sits atop two hills, Al-Ashrafīyah (East Beirut) and Al-Muṣayṭibah (West Beirut), that protrude into the sea as a roughly triangular peninsula. In the immediate hinterland lies a narrow coastal plain (Al-Sāḥil) that extends from the mouth of the Nahr Al-Kalb (Dog River) in the north to that of the Nahr Al-Dāmūr (Damur River) in the south.Physical and human geography
The landscape
The city site
Beirut
Alternate titles:
Bayrut; Berot; Beyrouth; Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus
Written by Kamal Suleiman Salibi
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