Talk:History of Lebanon

Five Provinces?[edit]

The article mentions the "five provinces" of Ottoman Lebanon that were dealt with by Sykes-Picot, but doesn't say what they were called. A map? This article redirects from Beirut Province, Ottoman Empire but there is no information about that province, what its extent was, what its neighbors were, what it's procession of governors was. What about the other four? Help! 216.231.46.147 01:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Autonomous Ottoman Mount-Lebanon[edit]

(from the French article Histoire du Liban) liste des gouverneurs ottomans chrétiens du Mont-Liban

1861-1868 : Garabet Artin dit "Daoud Pacha" (+/-1816-1873) - Arménien catholique d'Istanbul - Ambassadeur à Vienne (1856-1857)/ Gouverneur du Liban (1861)/ Directeur des PTT et des Travaux Publics (1868) [1]
1868-1873 : Nasri Franco Coussa dit "Franco Pacha" (1814-1873) - Syrien grec-catholique ("Levantin") d'Alep
1873-1883 : Rustem Pacha (1810-1885) - Italien catholique (aristocrate exilé)
1883-1892 : Pashko Vasa Shkodrani dit "Vasa Pacha" (1824-1892) - Albanais catholique de Shkodër (auteur de poèmes - publiés à titre posthume - prônant l'unité nationale albanaise au-delà des différences religieuses)
1892-1902 : Naum Coussa, dit "Naum Pasha" (1846-1911) - beau-fils de Nasri Franco Coussa
1902-1907 : Muzaffar Pasha (1837/1840-1907) - d'origine polonaise
1907-1912 : Youssef Coussa, dit "Yusuf Pacha" (1856-?) - fils de Nasri Franco Coussa
1912-1915 : Ohannès Kouyoumdjian dit "Ohannes Pacha" (1852-?) - Arménien catholique (auteur de : Le Liban. À la veille et au début de la guerre. Mémoire d'un Gouverneur, 1913-1915, publié en 2003)

Foreign Influence[edit]

Someone put that Lebanon was occupied by 'Martians' and 'Burmese' I just deleted that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.236.110.216 (talk) 18:23, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Governance[edit]

I pulled this section from Saadallah Howayek, it might be useful here:

Administration of Mount Lebanon[edit]

In 1861 the Ottomans separated Mount Lebanon from Syria. They reunited the geography under a non-Lebanese Christian mutasarrif (governor) appointed by the Ottoman sultan and who had approval of the European powers.

The mutasarrif was assisted by an administrative council of twelve members from the various religious communities in Mount Lebanon:

four Maronites
three Druze
one Turk (In the Ottoman Empire, Turk often referred to any Orthodox Sunni Muslim, regardless of ethnicity (as opposed to Ottoman non-Muslims)
two Greeks (Orthodox)
one Greek Uniate (Melkite, or Greek Catholic)
one Shiite

The members were elected from the seven districts or Aqdya,

Batroun, one Maronite
Keserwan, one Maronite
Jezzine, one Maronite, one Druze and one Sunni Muslim
Matn, one Maronite, one Druze, one Shiite and one Greek Orthodox
Chouf, one Druze
Kura, one Greek Orthodox
Zahle, one Greek Catholic

SADADS (talk) 12:46, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

380 villages destroyed by Ottoman Syrian Druze?[edit]

Does amyone know where I could source and list the names of the 380 Ottoman Syrian Christian villages destroyed by Ottoman Syrian Druze and Muslims during the 1860 Lebanon conflict? Thanks! Chesdovi (talk) 09:49, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of books which deal with this conflict. These should be added to a Further readings section in the 1860 Lebanon conflict article. An Occasion for War written by Fawaz gives a detailed account of the fighting that occurred, you should check it out. Eklipse (talk) 09:20, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Citations[edit]

While much of this article seems relatively accurate given my understanding of the history of the region, it is woefully lacking in citations. If I get time I'll mark several of them, but as I read it I keep thinking citation, citation, citation! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.109.248.68 (talk) 15:04, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Change dating system to Common Era[edit]

I will be changing the dating system on this article away from the biased, Christian based AD/BC to the common era system. This will bring the article into alignment with secular usage such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India. If you object, please state why you are ok with the biased system here. Eupnevma (talk) 19:44, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. I see no reason to change per MOS:VAR. Masterhatch (talk) 19:45, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Before you go changing AC BC please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style, specifically MOS:VAR. Also, as User:Eupnevma brought this up on multiple pages, instead of hundreds of discussions regarding the changes on hundreds of different talk pages, get a conversation going here: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. Thanks! Masterhatch (talk) 21:12, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]