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Bashir III, coming on the heels of a man who by guile, force and diplomacy had dominated Mt Lebanon and the Biqa for 52 years, did not last long. In 1841 conflicts between the impoverished Druze and the Maronite Christians exploded: There was a massacre of Christians by the Druze at Deir al Qamar, and the fleeing survivors were slaughtered by ...
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 ...
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 coastline
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.
Contents. History of the ancient Levant. The Levant is the area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and Mesopotamia in the east. It stretches roughly 400 mi (640 km) north to south, from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert and Hejaz, [ 1 ] and east ...
History of Phoenicia. Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic-speaking thalassocratic civilization that originated in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. [1][2] At its height between 1100 and 200 BC, Phoenician civilization spread across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula.
Phoenicia (/ fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə /), [4] or Phœnicia, or the Phoenician city-states, were an ancient Semitic maritime civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5][6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history ...
Lewis, United States. Occupation (s) electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor. Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah (Arabic: حسن كامل الصباح; August 16, 1894 – March 31, 1935) was a Lebanese electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor. He was born in Nabatieh in present-day Lebanon.