Beddawi
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Beddawi (Arabic: بدوي) is a small city situated at the Mediterranean sea about 5 km north of Tripoli. 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.
[edit] History
Until the 1950's 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.
[edit] See also
List of Palestinian refugee camps
[edit] External links and references
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