| Saad Hariri's Future Party
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Cities |
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- Beirut (2,100,000)
- Bint Jbeil (40,000)
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Ancient Roman Temple to Bacchus in Baalbek,
near Hezbollah Training Camps
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| Demographics |
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- Population: 3,874,050
- Life Expectancy: 72.88 years
- Literacy: 87.4%
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- Median Age: 27.8 years
- Suffrage: 21 years - universal to educated
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| Geographics |
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- Land Size: about 0.7 times the size of Connecticut
- Total: 10,400 sq km
- Water: 170 sq km
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| Government |
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- the three top government positions should be distributed as follows: the
president of the republic should be a Maronite; the prime minister, a Sunni Muslim; and
the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, a Shia Muslim. The ratio of deputies was to be six
Christians to five Muslims.
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| History |
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- Approximately 100,000 Lebanese (mostly Christian,
some Muslims), flee famine and religious tensions, settle in Argentina:
1904 - 1914
- General Gouraud proclaimed the establishment of Greater Lebanon with
current boundaries September 1, 1920
- First Lebanese Constitution May 23, 1926
- French high commissioner suspends Constitution September 1939
- Bishara al Khuri elected president September 21, 1943
- Chamber of Deputies amends Constitution, Abolishing French Mandate over
Lebanon November 8, 1943
- National Pact or National Covenant (al Mithaq al Watani), approved
between the two most prominent Christian and Muslim leaders, Khuri and Sulh. 1943
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- Lebanon became a member of the League of Arab States (Arab League) on
March 22, 1945
- French troops withdraw, with signing Franco-Lebanese Treaty, December 31,
1946.
- Lebanon's first president after independence was Bishara al Khuri,
elected in 1943 for a six-year term; reelected in 1949 for a second term, he became
increasingly imperial in his actions.
- Syrian forces enter Lebanese soil, in Beirut (1976)
- Syrian army massacres Palestinians in Tel al Zaatar camps in Lebanon
(1976)
- Lebanon Massacre of 1982
- Lebanon and Syria completely destroy opium crop in Bekaa Valley 1992
- Israel withdraws military forces from Lebanon 2000
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| Language |
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- Arabic
- French
- English
- Armenian
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| Religion |
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- Muslim 59.7% (Shi'a,
Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri)
- Christian 39%
(Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic,
Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Copt, Protestant)
- Other 1.3%
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