Tripoli:
- The fortress
- Jami' El Kabir
- The old souk
.....
....However,
in the year 1100 Count Saint-Gilles of Toulouse put up a fortress 3 km to
the east, on a hill bordering the river Abu Ali. It was around this "Sanjil"
Castle that a new town grew up, the present-day Tripoli, which will be seen
to be no more 900 years old. Conquered by the Mamlouks under Sultan Qalaoun
in 1289 and then by the Ottomans under Selim 1st in 1516, it presents wide
modern streets and by way of contrast busy bazaars, or "souqs",
with spinning mills, foundries, soap-works textile factories, pastry shops
and jewellers'. Old Tripoli preserves its old oriental charm with its narrow
streets, souqs and alleys and with its friendly people! Tripoli is particularly
well known for its Arab pastries. No trip into town would be complete without
a visit to one of the welcoming vendors of confectionary. The ruins of Sanjil
Castle still rise impressively despite its checkered history of demolition
and reconstruction by different conquerors, notable among whom was the Mamlouk
Prince Kurdji, who carried out extensive restorations in 1307. On the western
side of the hill, the Francs built a romanesque church named Saint Mary of
the Tower, destined to become after some alteration the Great Mosque. Near
this stands the Koranic school, the Madrassa Qartauviy. More to the north
is the Es-Saboun (soap) Market, Khan El Kayyatin (the Tailors), and a maze
of narrow streets, bazaars rich in oriental colour and perfumes of eastern
spices. Between the two cities we have described there stretches an immense
orange grove, 3 km long, whose praises have been declaimed in verse.....
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Decree
N. 2385 of 17/1/1924 as amended by law N. 76 of 3/4/1999 ( articles 2, 5, 15,
49 and 85 ) lays down as follows:
The author of a literary or artistic work, by the very fact of authorship, has
absolute right of ownership over the work, without obligation of recourse to
formal procedures . The author will himself enjoy the benefit of exploitation
of his work, and he possesses exclusive rights of publication and of the reproduction
under any form whatsoever. Whether the work in question comes under the public
domain or not those persons will be liable to imprisonment for a period of one
to three years and to fine of between five and fifty million Lebanese pounds,
or to either one of these penalties, who
1-will
have appended or caused to be appended a usurped name on a literary or artistic
work;
2-will have fraudulently imitated the signature or trademark adopted by an author,
with a view to deceiving the buyer;
3-will have counterfeited a literary or artistic work;
4-or will have knowingly sold, received, or put on sale or into circulation
a work which is counterfeit or signed with a forged signature.
The punishment will be increased in the event of repetition.