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{{Short description|Quarter of Beirut}}
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[[File:Zuqaq al-Blat.png|right|thumb|Location of the Zuqaq al-Blat quarter within Beirut]]
[[File:Zuqaq al-Blat.png|right|thumb|Location of the Zuqaq al-Blat quarter within Beirut]]


'''Zuqaq al-Blat''' ({{lang-ar|زقاق البلاط}}) is one of the twelve quarters of [[Beirut]].<ref name="oxf">{{cite book | title=Fin de Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Hanssen, Jens | year=2005 | isbn=0199281637|url=http://books.google.com.lb/books?id=Irx86skHYioC&dq}}</ref>
'''Zuqaq al-Blat''' ({{lang-ar|زقاق البلاط}}) is one of the twelve quarters of [[Beirut]].<ref name="oxf">{{cite book | title=Fin de Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Hanssen, Jens | year=2005 | isbn=0199281637 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Irx86skHYioC | access-date=2020-10-04 | archive-date=2023-08-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230817235031/https://books.google.com/books?id=Irx86skHYioC | url-status=live }}</ref>


==Etymology==
==Etymology==
Zoqaq al-Blat literally means "the cobbled alley", this was a colloquial name given to the street extending from the old city to the Qantari hill and which was covered with [[cobblestone]]s in the 19th century.<ref name="samir"/>
Zoqaq al-Blat literally means "the cobbled alley", this was a colloquial name given to the street extending from the old city to the Qantari hill and which was covered with [[cobblestone]]s in the 19th century.<ref name="samir"/>


Zuqaq al-Blat is also commonly called "al-Batrakieh" ({{lang-ar|البطركية}}, the Patriarchate) due to the presence of the seat of the Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Beirut within its borders.<ref name="ya">{{cite web | url=http://www.yabeyrouth.com/pages/index20.htm | title=زقاق البلاط | publisher=yabeyrouth.com | accessdate=February 14, 2013}} {{ar icon}}</ref>
Zuqaq al-Blat is also commonly called "al-Batrakieh" ({{lang-ar|البطركية}}, the Patriarchate) due to the presence of the seat of the Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Beirut within its borders.<ref name="ya">{{cite web | url=http://www.yabeyrouth.com/pages/index20.htm | script-title=ar:زقاق البلاط | publisher=yabeyrouth.com | access-date=February 14, 2013 | language=ar | archive-date=October 22, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022084626/http://yabeyrouth.com/pages/index20.htm | url-status=live }}</ref>

==History==
==History==
Once a medieval walled port town, [[Beirut]] experienced rapid growth during the second half of the 19th century; the overcrowded city developed beyond its walls and the affluent citizens started to build their villas on the slopes of the surrounding hills, namely [[Ashrafieh]], Qnatari and Musaytbeh.<ref name="tuk">{{cite web | url=http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607699/index.pdf |title=Urban transformation of ottoman port cities in the nineteenth century: Change from ottoman Beirut to French mandatory Beirut | publisher=Middle East Technical University | work=Thesis submitted to the graduate school of social sciences of Middle East technical university | date=September 2006 | accessdate=February 9, 2013 | author=ÖZTÜRK, PELİN KİHTİR}}</ref><ref name="kassir">{{cite book| title=Beirut | publisher=University of California Press | author=Kassir, Samir | authorlink=Samir Kassir | year=2010 |isbn=0520256689 | coauthors=M. B. DeBevoise}}</ref>
Once a medieval walled port town, Beirut experienced rapid growth during the second half of the 19th century; the overcrowded city developed beyond its walls and the affluent citizens started to build their villas on the slopes of the surrounding hills, namely [[Ashrafieh]], Qnatari and Musaytbeh.<ref name="tuk">{{cite thesis |url=http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607699/index.pdf |title=Urban transformation of Ottoman port cities in the nineteenth century: Change from Ottoman Beirut to French mandatory Beirut |location=[[Middle East Technical University]] |date=September 2006 |degree=MA |author=Kihtir Öztürk, Pelin |access-date=2013-02-14 |archive-date=2014-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202201318/http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607699/index.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="kassir">{{cite book| title=Beirut | publisher=[[University of California Press]] | author=Kassir, Samir | author-link=Samir Kassir | year=2010 |isbn=978-0520256682 |author2=M. B. DeBevoise }}</ref>

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In 1832 Beirut came under the occupation of [[Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt|Ibrahim Pasha]]'s troops. The new Egyptian authorities undertook grand works of urban planning and sanitation. The appointed Egyptian-[[Circassians|Circassian]] governor of Beirut, Mahmoud Naami Bey commissioned street cobbling works which stretched beyond the city's walls, the street extending from the south-western side of the city wall into the new extramural neighborhoods on the Qantari hill came to be known as Zoqaq al-Blat and gave its name to the quarter.<ref name="samir">{{cite book | script-title=ar:تاريخ بيروت | publisher=Dar An-Nahar | author=Kassir, Samir | author-link=Samir Kassir | year=2006 | location=Beirut| isbn=9953741018|language=ar}}</ref>

===Notable residents===
Some of the notable people resided in Zuqaq al-Blat included:


* [[Abd el-Qader Qabbani]]<ref name=":0" />
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In 1832 Beirut came under the occupation of [[Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt|Ibrahim Pasha]]'s troops. The new Egyptian authorities undertook grand works of urban planning and sanitation. The appointed [[Egypt]]ian-[[Circassians|Circassian]] governor of Beirut, Mahmoud Naami Bey commissioned street cobbling works which stretched beyond the city's walls, the street extending from the south-western side of the city wall into the new extramural neighborhoods on the Qantari hill came to be known as Zoqaq al-Blat and gave its name to the quarter.<ref name="samir">{{cite book | title=تاريخ بيروت | publisher=Dar An-Nahar | author=Kassir, Samir | authorlink=Samir Kassir | year=2006 | location=Beirut| isbn=9953741018}} {{ar icon}}</ref>
*[[Butrus Bustani]]<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |author=Speidl, Bianka |year=2011 |title=Distance in vicinity: Beirut's Zuqaq el-Blat, a place of transformation, conflict and co-existence |url=https://ojs.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/mediterran_tanulmanyok/article/view/34495/33611 |url-status=live |journal=Études sur la Région Méditerranéenne |volume=20 |page=37 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429165623/https://ojs.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/mediterran_tanulmanyok/article/view/34495/33611 |archive-date=2023-04-29 |access-date=2023-04-29}}</ref>
*[[Fairuz]]
*[[Hussein Beyhum]]<ref name=":0" />
*Khalil Sarkis<ref name=":0" />


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Neighbourhoods of Beirut]]
[[Category:Neighbourhoods of Beirut]]

Latest revision as of 20:33, 18 May 2024

33°53′32″N 35°29′54″E / 33.89222°N 35.49833°E / 33.89222; 35.49833

Location of the Zuqaq al-Blat quarter within Beirut

Zuqaq al-Blat (Arabic: زقاق البلاط) is one of the twelve quarters of Beirut.[1]

Etymology[edit]

Zoqaq al-Blat literally means "the cobbled alley", this was a colloquial name given to the street extending from the old city to the Qantari hill and which was covered with cobblestones in the 19th century.[2]

Zuqaq al-Blat is also commonly called "al-Batrakieh" (Arabic: البطركية, the Patriarchate) due to the presence of the seat of the Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Beirut within its borders.[3]

History[edit]

Once a medieval walled port town, Beirut experienced rapid growth during the second half of the 19th century; the overcrowded city developed beyond its walls and the affluent citizens started to build their villas on the slopes of the surrounding hills, namely Ashrafieh, Qnatari and Musaytbeh.[4][5]

In 1832 Beirut came under the occupation of Ibrahim Pasha's troops. The new Egyptian authorities undertook grand works of urban planning and sanitation. The appointed Egyptian-Circassian governor of Beirut, Mahmoud Naami Bey commissioned street cobbling works which stretched beyond the city's walls, the street extending from the south-western side of the city wall into the new extramural neighborhoods on the Qantari hill came to be known as Zoqaq al-Blat and gave its name to the quarter.[2]

Notable residents[edit]

Some of the notable people resided in Zuqaq al-Blat included:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hanssen, Jens (2005). Fin de Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199281637. Archived from the original on 2023-08-17. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
  2. ^ a b Kassir, Samir (2006). تاريخ بيروت (in Arabic). Beirut: Dar An-Nahar. ISBN 9953741018.
  3. ^ زقاق البلاط (in Arabic). yabeyrouth.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
  4. ^ Kihtir Öztürk, Pelin (September 2006). Urban transformation of Ottoman port cities in the nineteenth century: Change from Ottoman Beirut to French mandatory Beirut (PDF) (MA thesis). Middle East Technical University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
  5. ^ Kassir, Samir; M. B. DeBevoise (2010). Beirut. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520256682.
  6. ^ a b c d Speidl, Bianka (2011). "Distance in vicinity: Beirut's Zuqaq el-Blat, a place of transformation, conflict and co-existence". Études sur la Région Méditerranéenne. 20: 37. Archived from the original on 2023-04-29. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
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