Beirut Hippodrome of Lebanese Heritage (APLH), the court suspended on May 31, 2012 the Culture Ministry's decision, N˚ 849, to dismantle the Roman Hippodrome that would have allowed for the construction of a building project on the site. The site is protected for now. The current Beirut Hippodrome, officially called Hippodrome du parc de Beyrouth, is a horse-racing facility in Beirut's Horsh district adjacent to Badaro. In 1893 the “al-Marmah” hippodrome was founded, in the town of Bir Hassan. Wealthy Beirutis wished to create a club-complex that included a western style hippodrome and casino. In 1916, the wali of Beirut Azmi Bey,
Glossary of the Greek military junta Finally, some are taken from Greece's cultural tradition. Some examples of these terms as well as their contextual meaning follow. Sometimes the terms were combined for stronger effect. As an example "O Skotadismos kai i Synodiporia" meaning Western and Greek leftist sympathisers, in other words internal and external opposition to the junta. It is also worth noting that the junta always communicated in katharevousa Greek with only one exception: "Rahokokalia tou laou" which was specially coined for farmer consumption and it is the only phrase, in the junta vocabulary, to be in demotic Greek. Glossary of the Greek military junta