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August 12, 2008 | permalink |


An ancient city with a Mediterranean view figures in today's Geo Quiz. Lebanon's largest city is located about halfway down its long Mediterranean coastline.

It's a city that reinvented itself after the country's civil war that ended in 1990. Many of the city's buildings have been redesigned and rebuilt.

The city boasts new theaters, bars and nightclubs. But not all traces of the civil war have been erased.

During the war, rockets and artillery damaged one of city's most fashionable apartment buildings. One architect wants to preserve the battered building as a civil war museum.

But others say a museum should commemorate Lebanon's ancient history, rather than its recent past.

We'll hear more about this debate and spell out the name of this Lebanese city here ...





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