Bechamoun — Wikipedia

Bechamoun (Arabic: بشامون, romanized: Bshāmūn), is a town near Beirut in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. It has an area about 6.6 square kilometres and elevation between 60 and 580 metres above sea level. It lies 8 kilometres from Beirut’s airport and central Beirut. The town has a population of greater than 80000. In November 1943, when the President of the Republic Bechara el-Khoury, the Prime Minister Riad el-Solh, and the majority of the ministers were arrested by the French mandatory forces, Speaker of Parliament Sabri Hmadeh, Emir Majid Arslan, Minister Habib Abou Chahla...