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Youssef Aftimus, the Glossary

Youssef Aftimus (25 November 1866 – 10 September 1952) was a Lebanese civil engineer and architect who specialized in Moorish Revival architecture.^[1]

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Achrafieh

Achrafieh (الأشرفية) is an upper-class area in eastern Beirut, Lebanon.

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American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut (AUB; al-Jāmiʿa l-Amērkiyya fī Bayrūt) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Atelier de Recherche ALBA (Research Workshop ALBA) is a trans-disciplinary structure in the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA, created and curated by Pierre Hage Boutros, Rana Haddad and Gregory Buchakjian.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.

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Beirut

Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Beirut City Hall

Beirut City Hall, also known as the Municipality of Beirut, is a landmark building built in downtown Beirut, Lebanon in 1924,A Global History of Architecture Youssef Aftimus won the design competition for Beirut's City Hall in 1923.

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Beit Beirut

Bayt Beirut (بيت بيروت; literally "the house of Beirut") is a museum and urban cultural center dedicated to portraying the history of Beirut, with a particular focus on the Lebanese Civil War.

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Beyoğlu

Beyoğlu (script) is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chouf District

Chouf (also spelled Shouf, Shuf or Chuf, in Jabal ash-Shouf) is a historic region of Lebanon, as well as an administrative district in the governorate (muhafazat) of Mount Lebanon.

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Collège Mariste Champville

The Collège Mariste Champville (commonly known as "Champville") is a private Marist Roman Catholic and French-language educational institution set in Dik El Mehdi, Matn District, Lebanon.

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Construction engineering

Construction engineering, also known as construction operations, is a professional subdiscipline of civil engineering that deals with the designing, planning, construction, and operations management of infrastructure such as roadways, tunnels, bridges, airports, railroads, facilities, buildings, dams, utilities and other projects.

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Deir al-Qamar

Deir al-Qamar (translit) is a city south-east of Beirut in south-central Lebanon.

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Effendi

Effendi or effendy (efendi; afandi; originally from αφέντης) is a title of nobility meaning sir, lord or master, especially in the Ottoman Empire and the Caucasus. The title itself and its other forms are originally derived from Medieval Greek aphentēs which is derived from Ancient Greek authentēs meaning lord.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.

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Grand Serail of Beirut

The Grand Serail (السراي الكبير, al-Sarāy al-Kabir; also known as the Government Palace) is the headquarters of the Prime Minister of Lebanon.

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Grand Theatre, Lebanon

The Grand Théâtre, Lebanon also known as the Grand Théâtre des Mille et Une Nuits was a theatre located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon.

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Greek Catholic Church

Greek Catholic Church may refer to.

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Haigazian University

Haigazian University (جامعة هايكازيان; Հայկազեան Համալսարան, pronounced Haygazyan Hamalsaran) is a higher education institution founded in 1955 in Beirut, Lebanon as Haigazian College.

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History of Lebanon under Ottoman rule

The Ottoman Empire nominally ruled Mount Lebanon from its conquest in 1516 until the end of World War I in 1918.

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Ibrahim Edhem Pasha

Ibrahim Edhem Pasha (ابراهيمادهمپاشا) (1819–1893) was an Ottoman statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier in the beginning of Abdul Hamid II's reign between 5 February 1877 and 11 January 1878.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Lebanese Civil War

The Lebanese Civil War (الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990.

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Lebanese people

The Lebanese people (الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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List of hospitals in Lebanon

This is a list of hospitals in Lebanon.

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List of Lebanese architects

The following is a list of notable Lebanon architects in alphabetical order. Youssef Aftimus and list of Lebanese architects are Lebanese architects.

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Manouk Avedissian

Manouk Avedissian (1841–1925), more commonly known as Bechara Effendi (or Bechara Effendi al-Muhandis, Bechara Afandi, also Bechara Effendi el-Dob "the bear") was an Ottoman administrator and the chief engineer of the Vilayet of Syria and later of the Vilayet of Beirut. Youssef Aftimus and Manouk Avedissian are Lebanese civil engineers.

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Moorish Revival architecture

Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ottoman Baroque architecture

Ottoman Baroque architecture, also known as Turkish Baroque, was a period in Ottoman architecture in the 18th century and early 19th century which was influenced by European Baroque architecture.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssef_Aftimus

Also known as Aftīmūs, Yūsuf ibn Fāris, Youssef Aftimos, Youssif Aftimos, Yusuf Aftimus.

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Independent politicians in Lebanon

Lebanese architects

Lebanese civil engineers

Lebanese philanthropists

People from Chouf District

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