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![[Municipality of Beirut (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb-be-be.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 08 Jan 2010
The municipal flag of Beirut – light blue with the city's coat of arms – is shown in a Flickr photo (caption: "Beirut Vice Mayor Tawfik Kfuri and Mayor Abdel Mounimariss present [...] Beirut flag"). The flag's coat of arms is slightly different from the standalone version; the background of the central compartment with the galley is an even lighter light blue (as opposed to the arms, where it is white.)
Eugene Ipavec, 08 Jan 2010
![[Municipality of Beirut (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb-be)be.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 08 Jan 2010
The Beirut coat of arms is a shield gules with a fess argent charged with a Phoenician galley with a horse-head prow and five oarsmen on rolling gold-edged blue waves, transporting a large open white book with inscriptions in Latin ("BERYTUS NUTRIX LEGUM") and Arabic (?). I understand that the book alludes to a prominent school of law established in Beirut during the Late Roman period. The shield is surmounted with a heavily stylized golden mural crown charged with the national cedar. This is basically identical to – albeit a handsomer rendition of – the municipal CoA as shown at Wikipedia, only there the upper red band bears the Arabic inscription "[something] Beirut," presumably "City of."
Eugene Ipavec, 08 Jan 2010
![[Erroneously Reported/Former (?) Flag, Municipality of Beirut (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb!beiru.gif)
image from http://www.travel-images.com, 14 Jan 2007
This site has an image it identifies as the flag of Beirut municipality – white with arms in center.
Eugene Ipavec, 14 Jan 2007
![[Beirut Marathon Association (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb@bma.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 15 Jan 2008
Photos of the BMA flag can be seen here, on the organization's website.
Eugene Ipavec, 15 Jan 2008
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