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Agora Hellénistique et Romaine

جميزة, Lebanon

Agora Hellénistique et Romaine

The Petit Serail (Arabic: السراي الصغير / ALA-LC: as-sarāy as-ṣaghīr, literally “Little Saray”) was a historic Ottoman administrative building in Beirut that served as the seat of the wali of Syria and later of the Beirut Vilayet. It was located on the northern edge of Martyrs' Square in the heart o

f the Beirut Central District. The building was the site of significant political and administrative activity; however, plans to enlarge Beirut’s principal civic square ultimately led to its demolition in 1950. The Petit Serail formed part of a broader corpus of Ottoman-era construction projects that contributed to the development of the architecture of Lebanon in Beirut.

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