Beddawi

Beddawi, Beddaoui, (Arabic: بدوي‎‎) is a small city situated at the Mediterranean sea about 5 km north of Tripoli, Lebanon. is a Sunni Muslim Lebanese village.[1] It had 6,012 eligible voters in the 2009 election.[2] There are 4 primary schools and one secondary school and one soccer team. The city is surrounded by orange orchards and has two monumental buildings of the crusades. It has also a non-working petroleum refinery, out of order since the Lebanese civil war. Beddawi city should not be confused with the Beddawi Palestinian camp.

History

Until the 1950s Beddawi was a little village surrounded with fields and had less than a 1,000 inhabitants. In 1955 the Palestinian refugees built a camp near the city and named it Beddawi camp. In 1983 the city underwent several battles between the Palestinian Militias and parts of it were severely damaged.

References

  1. ↑ "Municipal and ikhtiyariah elections in Northern Lebanon" (PDF). The Monthly. March 2010. p. 20. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Municipal and ikhtiyariah elections in Northern Lebanon" (PDF). The Monthly. March 2010. p. 23. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

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