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The Marada Movement (Arabic: تيار المردة, romanized: Tayyār Al-Marada) is a Lebanese political party and a former militia active during the Lebanese Civil War named after the legendary Marada (also called Mardaites) warriors of the early Middle Ages that fought on the external edge of the Byzantine Empire.
Thanks to the secret support provided by the Lebanese Army, [7] by January 1976 the Frangieh-controlled militia ranks had swollen to 2,400 troops, a total comprising 800 full-time fighters and 1,500 irregulars. At its height in the late 1970s, the Al-Marada mustered some 3,500 men and women equipped with modern small-arms. [8]
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Independent National Bloc (Arabic: التكتل الوطني المستقل) is a parliamentary bloc in the Lebanese parliament, formed in 2018 by Marada Movement, Dignity Movement, Farid Haykal Khazen and Moustafa El Husseini. [1]
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Marada were a group of autonomous communities living on Mount Lebanon during the Middle Ages. Marada may also refer to: Marada (comics), a fantasy comic book character created in 1982 by John Bolton and Chris Claremont; Marada, a genus of prehistoric mammals; The Marada Brigade, a Maronite militia in the Lebanese Civil War
Their other Arabic name, al-Jarājimah, suggests that some were natives of the town Jurjum in Cilicia; the word marada in Arabic is the plural of mared, which could mean a giant, a supernatural being like Jinn, a high mountain or a rebel. The argument that the Mardaites were Greek, [4] is supported on two facts.
Lugal-Marada was the city god of Marad. [2] He was regarded as a warlike deity. [1]The goddess Imzuanna, [1] also known as Ninzuanna, was Lugal-Marada's wife. [3] Marten Stol refers to two deities, Lugalmea and Ili-mīšar, as his divine attendants, [1] but according to Wilfred G. Lambert, the latter was associated with Imzuanna.