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About half the population of the Mount Lebanon subdivision, overwhelmingly Maronites, starved to death (200,000 killed out of 400,000 of the total populace) throughout the years of 1915–1918 during what is now known as the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon, [52] as a consequence of a mixed combination of crop failure, punitive governance ...
8th century BC. The reign of king Pygmalion of Tyre ends. Hiram II becomes king of Tyre. Mattan II succeeds Hiram II as king. The Assyrians under king Shalmaneser V start a four-year siege of Tyre that ends in 720 BC. Judah, Tyre and Sidon revolt against Assyria. The Assyrian siege of Tyre by king Sennacherib.
Lebanon (/ ˈ l ɛ b ə n ɒ n,-n ə n / ⓘ LEB-ə-non, -nən; Arabic: لُبْنَان, romanized: Lubnān, local pronunciation: [lɪbˈneːn]), officially the Republic of Lebanon, [c] is a country in the Levant region of West Asia, bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west; Cyprus lies a short distance from the country's coas
Bronze Age. The area was first recorded in history around 4000 BC as a group of coastal cities and a heavily forested hinterland. [citation needed] It was inhabited by the Canaanites, a Semitic people, whom the Greeks called "Phoenicians" because of the purple (phoinikies) dye they sold. These early inhabitants referred to themselves as "men of ...
Chehab became the Prime Minister of Lebanon in September 1952, and hold the additional portfolio of defense minister while also former a military cabinet. Chehab was then appointed acting president with the duty to ensure an emergency democratic presidential election. 2. Camille Chamoun.
The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, [ 4 ] is a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon -based paramilitary groups, and sometimes Syria. The conflict peaked during the Lebanese Civil War. In response to Palestinian attacks from Lebanon, Israel invaded in 1978 and again in 1982.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Jews largely lived in relative harmony in their environment, though the last rabbi remaining in Lebanon left the country in 1977. [23] In 1982, during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 11 leaders of the Jewish community were captured and killed by Islamic extremists. The community buildings also suffered during those ...
v. t. e. Michel Naim Aoun (Arabic: ميشال نعيم عون, Lebanese Arabic: [miˈʃæːl naˈʕiːm ʕawn]; born 30 September 1933) [3][4] is a Lebanese politician and former military general who served as the President of Lebanon from 31 October 2016 until 30 October 2022. [5] Born in Haret Hreik to a Maronite Christian family, Aoun joined ...