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Lebanon

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لبنان

الاسم الكامل = الجمهورية اللبنانية

العربية [1] لبنان - الجمهورية اللبنانية

لبنان او الجمهوريّة اللبنانيّة هي دولة تقع في الشرق الأوسط في جنوب غرب القارة الآسيوية. يحدها سوريا من الشمال و من الشرق، وإسرائيل من الجنوب. تطل من جهة الغرب على البحر الأبيض المتوسط.

English Lebanon - Lebanon

The Republic of Lebanon is a small, largely mountainous country in the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanon is bordered by ► Syria to the north and east and ► Israel to the south. Near Lebanon lies the island of ► Cyprus.

Français[2] Liban - République Libanaise

Le Liban est un pays du Proche-Orient, autrefois l'antique Phénicie. Le Liban est entouré de deux pays, la Syrie avec 376 km de frontière et Israël avec 79 km de frontière, et par la mer Méditerranée avec 240 km de côtes. Beyrouth est la capitale de la république libanaise. La langue officielle est l'arabe et la monnaie la livre libanaise.

Short name  Lebanon
Official name Lebanon
Status Independent country since 1941, recognized 1943
Location Middle East
Capital بيروت (Beirut)[3]
Population 5,416,225 inhabitants
Area 10,452 square kilometres (4,036 sq mi)
Major languages Arabic (official), French, Armenian
Major religions Islam, Christianity, and Druze
More information Lebanon, Geography of Lebanon, History of Lebanon and Politics of Lebanon
More images Lebanon - Lebanon (Category).

General maps

Image Map of Lebanon
Image Map of Lebanon
Image Bathymetric map of Lebanon
Image Governorates of Lebanon
Image Governorates and Districts
Image Municipalities of Lebanon

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Lebanon, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Lebanon.

Image Fertile Crescent
Image Akkadian Empire around 2000 BCE
Image The Hittite Empire (red) at the height of its power in ca. 1290 BC, bordering on the Egyptian Empire (green)
Image Hittite Empire
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Levant around 830 BCE.

 
Kingdom of Judah
 
Kingdom of Israel
 
Philistine city-states
 
Phoenician states
 
Kingdom of Ammon
 
Kingdom of Edom
 
Kingdom of Aram-Damascus
 
Aramean tribes
 
Arubu tribes
 
Nabatu tribes
 
Assyrian Empire
 
Kingdom of Moab

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Image Kingdom of Israel
Image The Levant in 800 BCE
Image The Assyrian Empire in the 9th to 7th centuries BC
Image Deportation of the Jews by the Assyrian Empire
Image Neo-Assyrian Empire
Image The Chaldean Empire around 600 BCE)
Image The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent
Image The Persian Achaemenid Empire
Image The Persian Achaemenid Empire
Image The Persian Achaemenid Empire
Image The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE
Image Map of the Empire of Alexander
Image Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE
Image Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)
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Hellenistic successor states:

 
Kingdom of Ptolemy
 
Kingdom of Cassander
 
Kingdom of Lysimachus
 
Kingdom of Seleucus
 
Epirus

Other states:

 
Carthage
 
Rome
 
Greek colonies

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Image Hellenistic world in 200 BCE
Image Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of Palestine
Image Roman conquest of Minor Asia
Image Map of the Roman Empire in 50
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The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;

 
133 BC
 
44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)
 
AD 14 (death of Augustus)
 
117 (maximum extension)

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Image Palestine in the Roman Empire
Image Iudaea in the first century
Image Camps of the Roman Legions in 80
Image Roman Empire in 117
Image Roman Empire divided 395, showing the dioceses and praetorian prefectures of Gaul, Italy, Illyricum and Oriens (east), roughly analogous to the four Tetrarch zones of influence after Diocletian's reforms.
Image The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders.
 
Western Roman Empire
 
Eastern Roman Empire
Image Division of the Roman Empire in 406
Image Eastern Roman Empire and Western Roman Empire, c.476
Image Eastern Roman Empire
Image Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus
Image Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus
Image Byzantine Empire 550
Image Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman
Image Age of the Caliphs
Image Caliphate around 750
Image The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194
Image The Crusader States
Image Ayyubid dynasty in 1189
Image The Ayyubid Empire of Saladin around 1190
Image Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Image Growth of the Ottoman Empire
[[|border|251x400px]] Map of the Ottoman Empire 1566
Image Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683
Image Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801
Image Lebanese Civil War 1976
Image Lebanon crisis 2006
Image Hezbollah in Lebanon
Image Blue Line demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel, established by the UN after the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon after its short 1978 invasion called "Operation Litani"
Image Targets in Lebanon
Image Lebanese Areas Targeted 7-12 to 7-27
Image Areas in Lebanon targeted by Israeli bombing, 12 July to 13 August 2006, during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
Image 2006 Lebanon conflict
Image Areas targeted inside Israel and Lebanon
Image 2006 conflict
Image 2007 conflict

Satellite maps

Image Satellite map

Notes and references

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  1. ↑ Romanization: Lubnan - Al-Jumhūriyyah al-Lubnāniyyah.
  2. ↑ French is neither an official or an native language, but is often used as a commercial language.
  3. ↑ Romanization: Bayrūt.

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