Beddawi

Beddawi

Beddawi ( _ar. بدوي) is a small city situated at the Mediterranean sea about 5 km north of Tripoli, Lebanon. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. There are 4 primary schools and one secondary school and one soccer team.The city is surrounded by orange orchards and has 2 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. In 1983 the city underwent several battles between the Palestinian Militias and parts of it were severely destroyed.


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