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Wanting to maximize the area under its direct control, contain an Arab Syria centered on Damascus, and ensure a defensible border, France moved the Lebanon-Syrian border to the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, east of the Beqaa Valley, territory which had historically belonged to the province of Damascus for hundreds of years, and was far more attached ...
This is a timeline of Lebanese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Lebanon and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Lebanon. See also the list of presidents of Lebanon and list of prime ministers of Lebanon
Severus also separated the area of modern Lebanon and parts of Syria from the greater province of Syria Coele, and formed the new province of Phoenice. [ citation needed ] Upon the death of Theodosius I in 395 AD, the Roman empire was ruled by 2 centres: the eastern or Eastern Roman part with its capital at Constantinople , and the western part ...
The Cedars of Lebanon. The Cedars of Lebanon are also known as the Cedars of God and are mentioned 103 [10] times in the Bible. Historically, the timber of these trees was exploited by numerous empires that crossed Lebanon, including the Phoenicians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Turks, Romans, Arabs, Israelites, Persians, and Babylonians. [11]
[153] [154] The Cedar Revolution was the largest rally in Lebanon's history at that time. [155] The last Syrian troops withdrew from Beirut on 26 April 2005, [156] and the two countries established diplomatic relations on 15 October 2008. [157]
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Tha'nayil as a Sunni Muslim village in the Beqaa Valley. [3]In 1982, Taanayel suffered heavy damages from aerial bombardments. [4]In October 1985, war planes of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) dropped bombs and fired rockets on a target near Tanayel on the Beirut-Damascus highway.
In 1596, it was named as a village, al-Bazuri, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 22 households, all Muslim.
Despite the historical feuds between Sunni Muslims and Christian Maronites and Druze, the Chouf district is still one of the most religiously diverse regions in Lebanon.. Currently, the region hosts equal proportions of Druze, Sunni Muslims, and Christians (Maronite and Greek Catholic) populat