Još u 19 stoljeću su u okviru Osmanskog Carstva imali svoju autonomnu regiju Libanonske Planine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lebanon_Mutasarrifate

To je ovo područje unutar isprekidane crte (boje predstavljaju današnju etničku kartu, a ne ondašnju)



Uglavnom, imali su svoje granice u kojima su imali čistu većinu. Nakon 1918 na mirovnoj konferenciji su tražili i dobili dodatne teritorije s muslimanskom većinom, tako da je Libanon u novim granicama bio otprilike pola-pola.

On 27 October 1919, the Lebanese delegation led by Maronite Patriarch Elias Peter Hoayek presented the Lebanese aspirations in a memorandum to the Paris Peace Conference. This included a significant extension of the frontiers of the Lebanon Mutasarrifate,[6] arguing that the additional areas constituted natural parts of Lebanon, despite the fact that the Christian community would not be a clear majority in such an enlarged state.[6] The quest for the annexation of agricultural lands in the Bekaa and Akkar was fueled by existential fears following the death of nearly half of the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate population in the Great Famine; the Maronite church and the secular leaders sought a state that could better provide for its people.[7] The areas to be added to the Mutasarrifate included the coastal towns of Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon and Tyre and their respective hinterlands, all of which belonged to the Beirut Vilayet, together with four Kazas of the Syria Vilayet (Baalbek, the Bekaa, Rashaya and Hasbaya).

Još u 19 stoljeću su u okviru Osmanskog Carstva imali svoju autonomnu regiju Libanonske Planine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lebanon_Mutasarrifate

To je ovo područje unutar isprekidane crte (boje predstavljaju današnju etničku kartu, a ne ondašnju)



Uglavnom, imali su svoje granice u kojima su imali čistu većinu. Nakon 1918 na mirovnoj konferenciji su tražili i dobili dodatne teritorije s muslimanskom većinom, tako da je Libanon u novim granicama bio otprilike pola-pola.

"Maybe it didn't take us long on the road, but families are now arriving who have been stuck on the roads since yesterday - 15 or 16 hours on the roads."

"We are waiting for victory, God willing, because as long as we have a neighbour like Israel, we can’t sleep safely," said Beirut resident Hassan Omar.

Lebanese environment minister Nasser Yassin said 27,000 people had been displaced so far during the bombing campaign launched by Israel on Monday.