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26-613: The neighborhood gets its name from the French term, La Quarantaine , because it was the location where a lazaretto for travellers was built at the request of Ibrahim Pasha , the son of Muhammad Ali Pasha , the Governor of Egypt, who controlled Syria and Beirut in 1831. The lazaretto was to be managed by a committee made up of the Austrian, Danish, French, Greek, and Spanish consuls. In 1951, 1,300 Palestinian refugees were settled in

52-660: A former steel factory, which opened in 2011. See Sea dumping in Karantina . 33°54′N 35°32′E  /  33.900°N 35.533°E  / 33.900; 35.533 Lazaretto A lazaretto ( / ˌ l æ z ə ˈ r ɛ t oʊ / LAZ -ə- RET -oh ), sometimes lazaret or lazarette ( / ˌ l æ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / LAZ -ə- RET ), is a quarantine station for maritime travelers. Lazarets can be ships permanently at anchor, isolated islands, or mainland buildings. In some lazarets, postal items were also disinfected, usually by fumigation . This practice

78-528: A permanent Lazzaretto in the same place to control the periodic influx of plague and cholera on board visiting ships. The hospital was subsequently improved over time, and was enlarged during the governorship of Sir Henry Bouverie in 1837 and 1838. The hospital was closed in 1929 and the building still exists to this day. There are plans for the restoration of the Manoel Island Lazaretto. Africans trafficked to Savannah, Georgia during

104-518: A series of towers as fortifications around the island of Malta , now known as the Lascaris towers . The towers were designed and built by papal military architect , Vincenzo Maculani . Lascaris Battery was named in his honor. Martin de Redin , who succeeded Lascaris as Grand Master of the Order, commissioned further towers and the combined collection of fortifications is often referred to as

130-409: Is known) and Martin de Redin . Inquisitor Fabio Chigi (later Pope Alexander VII ) attended as representative of Pope Urban VIII . Failing to secure enough votes for his own election, de Redin encouraged his supporters to instead side with Lascaris. On 16 June 1636, Lascaris was elected Grand Master of the Order of Malta, a position he held until his death. The following year, Lascaris commissioned

156-533: The De Redin towers . In 1639, Lascaris implemented a ban on women wearing masks or attending masked balls during carnivale . The ban was unpopular and locals blamed Lascaris' Jesuit confessor, Father Cassia. They took to the streets to poke fun at the Jesuits and Lascaris had one of the instigators arrested. A Jesuit college was ransacked as retaliation and those responsible demanded that Lascaris banish

182-586: The Dukes of Parma ; specifically galleons and other warships . But the Dukes of Parma, as well as the Duchy of Venice , the Duchy of Florence and Duchy of Modena (who were allied with them), appealed to Lascaris not to provide the pope with support. Lascaris played a dangerous double game; he sent warships to aid the pope while assuring the Dukes they were there only as a show of force and would not participate in

208-585: The River Thames . The hospital ships watched over ships coming to England which were forced to stay in the creek under quarantine to protect the country from infectious diseases, including the plague . Fidra , an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth in eastern Scotland , has the ruins of an old chapel, dedicated to St. Nicholas , which was used as a lazaretto. During the Nazi occupation of Poland,

234-789: The Venetian Lagoon ( 45°24′22″N 12°21′36″E  /  45.406°N 12.36°E  / 45.406; 12.36 ). Additionally there is Lazzaretto Nuovo , also in the lagoon. Pope Clement XII commissioned the architect Vanvitelli to design and build the Lazzaretto of Ancona at the south end of the Ancona harbor. The Lazzaretto di Milano in Milan features prominently in Alessandro Manzoni 's I promessi sposi . The Old Gaol at Market Square Roscommon

260-712: The German-run Treblinka extermination camp had a pit where new arrivals who were severely ill would be shot; the staff's euphemistic name for this area was the lazaret. As of 2002, one of the few remaining lazarets in Europe are Lazzarettos of Dubrovnik , Croatia. In the United States, the Philadelphia Lazaretto was built in 1799 as a response to the 1793 yellow fever outbreak . The Columbia River Quarantine Station located across

286-642: The Ionian Islands were united with Greece (1864), the leprosarium only operated when needed. Lazaretto Islet survives on Ithaca and another on Zakynthos . According to Edward Hasted in 1798, two large hospital ships (also called lazarettos), (which were the surviving hulks of forty-four gun ships) were moored in Halstow Creek in Kent . The creek is an inlet from the River Medway and

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312-539: The Jesuit order from Malta, which he did for a short time while tensions abated. The incident is still remembered today as Lascaris' ban . The common Maltese idiom "wiċċ Laskri" (lit. face of Lascaris) is used when describing a sad or frustrated person. Also in 1639, Pope Urban VIII asked Lascaris to intervene in the First War of Castro by sending naval forces owned by the order to assist papal troops against

338-519: The agreement. The Order's proprietary rights were confirmed in a treaty with France two years later: while the king would remain sovereign, the Knights would have complete temporal and spiritual jurisdiction on their islands. The only limits to their rule were that they could only send French knights to govern the islands, and upon the accession of each new King of France they were to provide a gold crown worth 1,000 écus. In 1665, after Lascaris's death,

364-483: The area. By the mid-1970s, the neighborhood had become a favela of 27,000 people – primarily Palestinians, Armenians , Kurds , and Shia Muslims . It was also a base for PLO paramilitary groups who engaged in battle during the Lebanese Civil War marking the area as a military target by opposing factions, particularly Lebanese Christians based in the nearby Ashrifieh neighborhoods. In January 1976, at

390-450: The conflict. Sure enough, conflict was limited to on-land skirmishes and Lascaris' troops did not fire a single shot. In 1651, the Knights, with Lascaris's approval, bought the island of Saint-Christophe , along with the dependent islands of Saint Croix , Saint Barthélemy , and Saint Martin , from the failing Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique . The Knights' ambassador to the French court, Jacques de Souvré  [ fr ] , signed

416-404: The days of slavery typically had to wait at a quarantine station on Tybee Island , which the slave ships accessed by way of Lazaretto Creek . Lazaretto Island (formerly known as Aghios Dimitrios) is located two nautical miles north-east of Corfu ( 39°38′28″N 19°55′26″E  /  39.641°N 19.924°E  / 39.641; 19.924 ). In the early 16th century, when Corfu

442-644: The height of the first phase of the Lebanese Civil War, the Karantina district was deemed a danger for the residents of East Beirut and following multiple attacks by Christian militias with the purpose of clearing out the PLO elements, the population was expelled and militants were neutralized in heavy fighting, followed by the Karantina massacre by the right-wing Lebanese Front , leaving around 1,500 people dead. Industries in La Quarantaine used to be centered on

468-492: The neighborhood adjacent to the highway is home to various commercial establishments, such as the Forum de Beyrouth, the multipurpose events center that hosted Beirut Rock Festival in 2009. B 018 , the renowned nightclub is also located in the area, as well as others such as KED and Grand Factory. An increasing number of art galleries have opened or relocated to the neighborhood such as Joy Mardini's Art Factum Gallery, located in

494-454: The production of glass, furniture, tile and bricks, leather products, but many of these industries were replaced with the production of metal-based, cereal silos, tanneries and artisanal industries. The area is one of the most polluted parts of the city due to its vicinity to the port as well as the presence of the city slaughterhouse (which is now closed) and a RAMCO (formerly Sukleen) waste disposal and treatment center. The southern part of

520-516: The river from Astoria, Oregon , also has a remaining example of a government built lazaretto constructed in 1912 by the US Marine Hospital Service. The lazaretto building is currently a museum dedicated to telling the story of station and its impact on the region. The first lazaret was established by Venice in 1423 on Santa Maria di Nazareth (also called "Nazaretum" or "Lazaretum", today " Lazzaretto Vecchio "), an island in

546-645: The second son of Giannetto Lascaris and his wife Franceschetta di Agostino Lascaris of the ancient family of the Counts of Ventimiglia , related to the Lascaris who were emperors of the Byzantine Nicaean Empire . In 1584, he entered the Order of St. John of Jerusalem . As a member of the order he lived for over thirty years in a priory and was responsible for a range of monastic functions. He

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572-456: Was conceived as a hospital for the people affected by the plague. Later on, the construction of the "Lazzaretto nuovo" (1468) on another Venetian island introduced the practice of the quarantine. In 1592, a lazaretto made of wooden huts was built on Manoel Island in Malta during a plague epidemic . It was pulled down in 1593 after the disease had subsided. In 1643, Grandmaster Lascaris built

598-475: Was put in charge of the order's grain supplies and later, in 1615, the order's furnaces across the island. He comported himself well and was promoted to master of the "St Anthony" prison . In 1632 he was sent as ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain . On the death of Grand Master Antoine de Paule , there were three candidates for election as Grand Master; Lascaris, Signorino Gattinara (about whom little

624-469: Was still being done as late as 1936, albeit in rare cases. The word comes from Italian : lazzaretto [laddzaˈretto] , derived the name of Santa Maria di Nazareth , the Venetian island where this type of institution was founded in 1423 - the passage from "nazzaretto" to "lazzaretto" was probably influenced by the previous use to dedicate hospitals for lepers to Saint Lazarus . Originally it

650-536: Was under Venetian rule, a monastery was established on the islet for prevention of diseases. Later that century, the island was renamed Lazaretto, after the leprosarium that was set up there. In 1798, when the French ruled Corfu, the Russo-Turkish fleet took over the islet and ran it as a military hospital. In 1814, during the British occupation, the leprosarium was renovated and went into operation again. After

676-472: Was used as a lazaretto for ten years from 1830 following its use as a Lunatic Asylum, and prior to its use as a commercial and private residence. Giovanni Paolo Lascaris Giovanni Paolo Lascaris di Ventimiglia e Castellar ( Maltese : Laskri ) (28 June 1560 – 14 August 1657) was an Italian nobleman and Grand Master of the Knights of Malta . Lascaris was born on 28 June 1560,

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