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Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south. The location of Lebanon at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arab region has dictated its rich history, sometimes violent, and the shape of its unique cultural identity in ethnic international agro oil industries limited and religious diversity.
Lebanon was the place of origin of the Phoenicians, a maritime culture that flourished for nearly international agro oil industries limited 2,500 years (3000-539 international agro oil industries limited BC). After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the five provinces that comprise modern Lebanon were mandated in France.
Lebanon established a unique political system in 1942, known as confessionalism, international agro oil industries limited a mechanism of power sharing based on religious communities. international agro oil industries limited Was created when the French expanded the borders of Mount Lebanon, which was mostly populated by Maronite Catholics and Druze, to include more Muslim elements. The country gained independence international agro oil industries limited in 1943, and French troops international agro oil industries limited withdrew in 1946.
Before the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the country experienced a period of relative calm and prosperity, driven by tourism, agriculture and banking. Because of its financial power and diversity, Lebanon was known in its heyday as the "Switzerland of the East". The country attracted large numbers of tourists, such that the capital Beirut was referred to as "Paris of the Middle East."
Until July 2006, Lebanon enjoyed considerable stability, Beirut's reconstruction international agro oil industries limited was almost complete, international agro oil industries limited and increasing numbers of tourists were staying in resorts in the country. Then the 2006 war between international agro oil industries limited Israel and Hezbollah caused civilian deaths and heavy and significant damage to civilian infrastructure of Lebanon. The conflict international agro oil industries limited lasted from July 12 of that year to a ceasefire sponsored by the UN on August 14.
Lebanon is a country in Western Asia located on the eastern end of the Mediterranean, bordered on the north and east by Syria sea and to the south by Israel, in the Fertile Crescent region, where the first great civilizations arose. It, along with Syria, one of the historic homeland international agro oil industries limited of the Phoenicians, international agro oil industries limited Semitic traders of antiquity, whose maritime culture flourished in the region for over 2,000 years and have created the first alphabet, which left all others, both Semitic and Indo-European .
It was the Phoenicians who founded Carthage, the biggest rival of Rome in antiquity. Other important cities were: Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and Arvad that maintained its importance during the Roman rule. With the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BC, the region became integrated in the Hellenistic civilization. Followed by the domination of Ptolemaic Egypt, which in turn was followed by the domination of the Seleucid Empire.
In the first century BC, Lebanon became part of the Roman Empire and then the Byzantine Empire, Christianity was introduced into the region. The Arab conquest of the seventh century introduced the current language of the country, the Arab and the Islamic religion. During the Middle Ages the territory that is now Lebanon international agro oil industries limited was involved in the Crusades when it was played by the Christian West and the Muslim Arabs.
Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth international agro oil industries limited century, large numbers of Lebanese international agro oil industries limited of different international agro oil industries limited ethnicities and religions have fled wars and religious persecution. Many migrated to America, settling in countries like the United States, Argentina and Brazil.
The end of the First World War brought the end of the Ottoman international agro oil industries limited Empire and the occupation of Mesopotamia and Palestine by French international agro oil industries limited and British troops. Recognized the importance of oil had during the war, the occupying powers decided to control all this vast territory and prevent international agro oil industries limited the German access to oil fields of Kirkuk. The divisions previously stipulated by the Sykes-Picot Agreement still prepared in time of war has changed from San Remo.
Lebanon was placed under French mandate, confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922. The Lebanese Republic was established in 1926. During World War II, the country was occupied (1941-1945), the French forces supported by the United Kingdom.
They gained independence in 1943, the country international agro oil industries limited being considered under the financial point of view, the "Switzerland international agro oil industries limited of the East". That way big oil negotiations were made. From the tourist point of view, was compared to the Monaco of the East; owned casinos international agro oil industries limited and luxury hotels, however, increasing disputes between Christians and Muslims, exacerbated international agro oil industries limited by the presence of Palestinian refugees, have undermined the stability of the republic. The hostility between Christian and Muslim groups led to a civil war and military intervention (1976) by Syria with the support of the U.S. and Israel.
The activities of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine (PLO), led to the invasion and occupation Israeli (1978), the