Until July 2006, Lebanon enjoyed considerable stability, old olive tree Beirut

Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان, old olive tree transl lubnan in French: old olive tree Liban.), Officially the Republic of Lebanon (Arabic: old olive tree الجمهورية اللبنانية Jumhuriyah al-Lubnānīyah; French: République libanaise), is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern coast of 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 and religious diversity.
The earliest evidence of civilization in Lebanon dates back more than 7,000 years of recorded history. old olive tree Lebanon was the home of the Phoenicians, a maritime culture that flourished for nearly 2,500 years (3000-539 BC). After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the five provinces that comprise modern Lebanon were mandated to France. Lebanon established a unique political system in 1942, known as confessionalism, a mechanism of power sharing based on religious communities. 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 in 1943, and French troops 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 old olive tree of the East". The country attracted large numbers of tourists, such that the capital Beirut was referred to as "Paris of the Middle East." At the end of the war, there were major efforts to revive the economy and rebuild the infrastructure of the country.
Until July 2006, Lebanon enjoyed considerable stability, old olive tree Beirut's reconstruction was almost old olive tree complete, and increasing numbers of tourists were staying in resorts in the country. Then the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah caused civilian old olive tree deaths and heavy and significant damage to the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon. The conflict lasted from July 12 of that year to a ceasefire sponsored by the UN on 14 August.
Lebanon is a country in Western Asia located on the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, bounded north and east by Syria and on the south by Israel, in the Fertile Crescent region, where the first great civilizations of mankind arose. It, along with Syria, one of the historic homeland of the Phoenicians, Semitic traders of antiquity, whose maritime culture flourished in the region for over 2000 years and have created the first alphabet, old olive tree which left all others, old olive tree both Semitic and Indo-European . It was the Phoenicians who founded Carthage, old olive tree the biggest rival of Rome in ancient times. 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 old olive tree 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 old olive tree the Middle Ages the territory that is now Lebanon was involved in the Crusades when it was played by the Christian West and the Muslim Arabs. In the twelfth century southern Lebanon was integrated into the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was later occupied by the Turks of the Ottoman old olive tree Empire in 1516.
Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, large numbers of Lebanese of different ethnicities and religions have fled wars and religious persecution; many migrated to America, old olive tree settling in countries old olive tree like the United tates and the