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A map of Mount Lebanon c. AD 1180. One of the most lasting effects of the Crusades in this region was the contact between the crusaders (mainly French) and the Maronites. Unlike most other Christian communities in the region, who swore allegiance to Constantinople or other local patriarchs, the Maronites proclaimed allegiance to the Pope in ...
A number of revivals were held in Lebanon during the 1890s, sometimes attracting as many as 600 people from communities in Live Oak and Bee Counties. Circa 1920, the church was moved to Cadiz, a nearby town in Bee County, and by 1940 Lebanon's Methodist congregation had been disbanded. A map drawn in the late 1930s shows only a graveyard at the ...
Israel's 1978 invasion of Lebanon pushed the PLO north of the Litani River, but the PLO continued their campaign against Israel. This invasion led to the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. Israel invaded Lebanon again in 1982 and, in alliance with the Christian Lebanese Forces, forcibly expelled the PLO.
Lebanon's Director General of Antiquities, Sarkis Khoury, said "The complete and systematic destruction of the historical memory of these villages is the most damaging thing." [ 8 ] Biladi, a non-governmental heritage organisation, reported that between the beginning of the invasion in September and the ceasefire in November more than twenty ...
Lebanon is a small country with a population of about 5.5 million people, which borders Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. It is about 170km ...
Insurgency in South Lebanon (1968–1982) Israel. Free Lebanon. South Lebanon Army. Lebanese Front. Kataeb Party. PLO Syria. LNM. Supported by: Soviet Union [3] Israeli and Lebanese victory. PLO ousted from Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War, relocated to Tunis. Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) LF Syria
Early in the invasion, the near total closure of Beirut's airport prevented medical aid supply deliveries from the WHO. [79] During the invasion, hospitals in Lebanon have experienced an increase in patients with miscarriages, early births, and other pregnancy complications, as people have been forced to flee their homes. [396]
The invasion was code-named "Operation Pines" or "Peace for Galilee", and was intended to weaken or evict the PLO and impose Bachir Gemayel, head of the Christian Phalange party, as President of Lebanon in order to get Lebanon to sign a peace treaty with Israel and bring the country into Israel's sphere of influence. This plan failed when ...