Capital Beirut
From the year 200 AD. J.-C., Beirut was known by his law school who had a special legal significance, because it was the first school of Roman law in the eastern Roman Empire.
The school was destroyed by earthquakes around 551 AD. J.-C.. The two famous lawyers in this school were Papinian (140-212 AD.) and Ulpian (who died in 228 AD.). For all these reasons, Justinian, the Roman Emperor, gave him an honorable title, « Berytus Nutrix Legum », which means mother Beirut laws.
Alphonse De Lamartine Experience
« The cedars of Lebanon are the most famous natural monuments of the universe. Religion, poetry and history have also devoted. The Scripture are famous in several places. They are one of the images that the prophets use for choice of predilection. Solomon wanted to devote to the adornment of the temple which he erected the first in one god, probably because of the reputation of magnificence and holiness that these prodigies of vegetation had at that time. What are those, for Ezekiel speaks of the cedars of Eden as the most beautiful of Lebanon. [..]
How many prayers have not echoed in these branches! And what more beautiful temple, what altar nearest to the sky, what more majestic canopy and holier than the last plateau of Lebanon, the trunks of cedars, and the dome of the sacred twigs that shade and shade still so many human generations, saying the name of God differently, but recognizing throughout his works, and worshiping in natural events! [..]
I looked up, then his eyes to heaven and saw the white crest and golden Sannine hovering in the sky above us ... This is one of the most beautiful and sweetest feelings I've experienced in my travels and then it was the land where I was finally going to rest in a delightful climate, on a green hill all I had dearest in the world, my wife and Julia (my daughter). »
