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[[File:A Sursocks Villa.jpg|thumb|250px|Sursock Villa]]

The Sursocks were one of Beirut's aristocratic Christian families that moved freely in Ottoman, Egyptian and European high societies. The Sursocks were an integral part of an international bourgeoisie centered in [[Alexandria]], [[Beirut]], [[Cairo]], [[Constantinople]], [[Paris]] and [[Rome]]. They were one of the "Seven Families" in Beirut's aristocratic nobility.<ref name=Moussa>{{cite web|title=Moussa Sursock|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/fouadgm/5021964602|website=FlikrFlickr|via= [https://www.flickr.com/people/fouadgm/ Dr. Fouad Gehad Marei], Flickr blog |access-date=2015-11-11|date=2010-05-07}}</ref><ref name=Heirs>{{cite web|title=Heirs of Europe|url=http://heirsofeurope.blogspot.com/2010/05/sursock.html|website=heirsofeurope.blogspot.com|publisher=heirsofeurope|accessdate=2015-11-09|date=2010-05-18}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=October 2017}}{{better source needed|date=June 2020}} Their wealth and sophistication are also reflected in their residences, equal in elegance to any Italian ''palazzo'', which remained largely unscathed despite fifteen years of mortar fire and violence.<ref name=cosmos>{{cite web|title=Merchants and migrants in nineteenth-century Beirut|url=http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=152780|website=cosmos.ucc.ie|accessdate=2015-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=May 2, 2016 |title=The Eternal Magic of Beirut |url=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/t-magazine/travel-beirut-architecture-art-design.html |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>

In the 17th century, members of the Sursock family served as tax collectors and held other key positions on behalf of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. As a result, they benefitted greatly from the [[Ottoman Land Code of 1858|1858 Ottoman land reforms]], during which they acquired large tracts of fertile land in Palestine and Syria, in addition to extensive holdings from Egypt to Beirut.<ref name=FAMILY>{{cite web|title=Sursuq Family|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3424602596.html|website=encyclopedia.com|accessdate=2015-11-11}}</ref>