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en-wikipedia-org-9103		Berytus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4393	793	69	Roman ruins of Berytus, in front of Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in modern-day Beirut Berytus (/ˈbɛrɪtəs, bəˈraɪtəs/;[1] Phoenician: Biruta; Ancient Greek: Βηρυτός, romanized: Bērytós; Latin: Bērȳtus), briefly known as Laodicea in Phoenicia (Ancient Greek: Λαοδίκεια ἡ ἐν Φοινίκῃ) or Laodicea in Canaan from the 2nd century to 64 BCE, was the ancient city of Beirut (in modern-day Lebanon) from the Hellenistic period through the Roman and Early Byzantine period/late antiquity. Berytus became a Roman colonia that would be the center of Roman presence in the eastern Mediterranean shores south of Anatolia.[2] The veterans of two Roman legions under Augustus were established in the city (the fifth Macedonian and the third Gallic), that afterward quickly became Romanized and was the only fully Latin-speaking city in the Syria-Phoenicia region until the fourth century. However, in the sixth century a series of earthquakes demolished most of the temples of Heliopolis (actual Baalbek) and destroyed the city of Berytus, leveling its famous law school and killing nearly 30,000 inhabitants. Berytus (Roman Beirut)	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9103.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9103.txt