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Strong Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية القوية) is the parliamentary bloc of the Lebanese Forces in the Lebanese Parliament. It is headed by member of parliament and vice president of the Lebanese Forces party Georges Adwan .
The latter holiday was officially recognized in Lebanon in 2003. [3] It is exclusively celebrated by Armenians in Lebanon. [4] February 9: Saint Maroun's Day: عيد مار مارون: Fête de Saint-Maron: The holiday is celebrated by the Maronites, hence the name. February 14: Rafic Hariri Memorial Day: يوم اغتيال رفيق الحريري
Greater Lebanon from Ra's Naqura in the south to Nahr al-Kabir north of Tripoli, and from the coast to the Anti-Lebanon mountains was established under the French provisional mandate in April 1920. Patriarch al-Huwayyik, with the Ottoman imposed famine in recent memory, insisted on the acquisition of the Biqa valley, a principal food producing ...
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Lebanon, [a] officially the Republic of Lebanon, [b] is a country in the Levant region of West Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula , [ 1 ] it is 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 coastline.
Republic Day (local name: Dan Republike or Дан Републике) marked the occasion two consecutive days, 29 and 30 November, and was likely the most important holiday (the other two-day holidays were New Year and May Day). In elementary schools first graders were inducted into the Union of Pioneers on or around Republic Day. Employees ...
Lebanon was one of the first countries in the Arabic-speaking world to introduce internet. Beirut's newspapers were the first in the region to provide readers with web versions of their newspapers. By 1986, three newspapers from Lebanon were online, Al Anwar, Annahar, and Assafir, and by 2000, more than 200 websites provided news out of Lebanon ...
Lebanon's native language, Levantine Arabic, [1] is the main language used in conversations. MSA, despite being Lebanon's second language by number of users, [1] is almost never used in conversations, [5] while English [33] and French [34] are, even between some native speakers of Levantine. Western Armenian and Kurdish are used by their ...