Who knows lebanon???and whta do you know abt it??

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Who knows lebanon???and whta do you know abt it??

Answer 1

why? what did lebanon do this time?

Answer 2

i live in lebanon, i know a lot about it

Answer 3

beautiful girls. i like one in ths category

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..."There Goes My Heart"~Roadsters lol well it's beautiful, unique, & i'm trying 2 find a word 2 describe it but it's failing me! Simply home =)

Answer 5

I know a day doesn't go by that I don't think about it & long to return.....

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Lebanon, republic in southwestern Asia, bounded on the north and east by Syria, on the southeast and south by Israel, and on the west by the Mediterranean Sea. The area is 10,400 sq km (4015 sq m ). The capital and leading port is Beirut .

Land and Resources

Lebanon is about 217 km (about 135 m) long and 40 to 80 km (25 to 50 m) wide. A very narrow coastal plain extends along the Mediterranean Sea. Inland the terrain is dominated by two major mountain ranges, which are separated by the fertile Bekaa Valley. The Lebanon range rises abruptly from the coastal plain; it is cut by numerous deep gorges and in the north contains the country's highest peak, Qurnat as-Sawda (3083 m/10,115 ft). The other major range, the Anti-Lebanon, lies along the Syrian border in the east. Lebanon's major, and only navigable, river, the Litani, is in the Bekaa Valley. Many of the other rivers flow only during the rainy winter season .

Climate

The climate varies from a Mediterranean-type subtropical climate along the coast and in the Bekaa Valley to a generally cool one in the upper mountains. Summers are hot and dry; winters are mild and humid. Frost is rare at lower elevations. The mean temperature in the lowlands is 26.7° C (80° F) in summer and 10° C (50° F) in winter. The mountainous region is somewhat cooler. Annual precipitation, occurring mainly in winter, is 889 mm (35 in) along the coast, 635 mm (25 in) or less in the Bekaa Valley, and more than 1270 mm (more than 50 in) in the mountains .

Population

The Lebanese are descended from many ethnic strains, mainly Semitic, and can be traced to the ancient Phoenicians .

Population Characteristics

According to a 1993 estimate, the population of Lebanon was 3,552,369; the overall density was about 341 people per sq km (about 884 per sq m). About 81 percent of the people lived in urban areas. No census has been taken since 1932.

Principal Cities

The capital and leading port is Beirut, with a population of 1,500,000 (1988 estimate). Tripoli, with 160,000 inhabitants, and Sidon, with a population of 38,000. Both cities are important ports and oil pipeline terminuses in Lebanon .

Language

Arabic is the official language of Lebanon. French and English have wide official and commercial use .

Education

Primary education is free but not compulsory in Lebanon. The literacy rate, higher than 75 percent, is among the highest in the Arab world. In the mid-1980s about 329,300 pupils attended some 2100 primary schools and approximately 230,900 students were enrolled in 1400 secondary schools. The government operates a number of trade, agricultural, and other specialized schools.

Beirut is the location of five Lebanese universities: the Lebanese University UL (1951), the American University of Beirut AUB (1866), the Jesuit-affiliated Saint Joseph University USJ (1881), Beirut Arab University (1960), and a university operated by the Lebanese Maronite Order USEK. Their total annual enrollment in the late 1980s was about 63,600.

Culture

Blending traditional Arabic and recent Western influences, mainly French and U.S., Lebanon reached a high level of cultural achievement, exemplified in the works of the poet-painter Khalil Gibran.

The National Library, in Beirut, is a depository for United Nations documents. The library of the Saint John monastery in Khinsharah dates from 1696 and has on display one of the first printing presses (with Arabic and Greek fonts) of the Middle East. The American University Museum and the National Museum, in Beirut, house regional antiquities and artifacts .

Currency and Banking

The unit of currency in Lebanon is the Lebanese pound, divided into 100 piasters (1550 pounds equal U.S.$1; 1997). The Bank of Lebanon (1964) functions as central bank and sole bank of issue .

Commerce and Foreign Trade

Commerce is of major importance to the economy. Before the mid-1970s, many foreign firms had branches in Beirut. The climate, scenery, and historical remains attracted tourists, with consequent benefits to the economy. Both commerce and the tourist industry suffered from the warfare of the 1970s and 1980s. In the late 1980s, annual imports were valued at about $1.9 billion and exports at some $591 million. Lebanon's chief trading partners are other Middle Eastern nations, as well as France, Germany, and the United States .

Transportation

Lebanon has some 7370 km (about 4580 m) of roads, which were used by more than 470,000 motor vehicles registered in the early 1980s. Many foreign shipping lines formerly use port facilities at Beirut and Tripoli. Lebanon has about 200 merchant ships with a total deadweight tonnage of 634,500 .

Government

Lebanon is a republic governed under a constitution promulgated in 1926, as amended. The constitution was substantially revised in 1990 .

Executive

The president of Lebanon is elected by the legislature for six years and may not serve two successive terms. In consultation with the National Assembly, the president designates the prime minister and other cabinet ministers.

Legislature

Under the revised constitution, the unicameral National Assembly has 128 members elected by universal suffrage. Legislative seats are divided equally between Christians and Muslims .

Judiciary

Lebanon has no single supreme court. Under the constitution of the country, a council of state hears administrative cases, and a five-member special court of justice deals with matters of state security. The judicial system also includes single-judge courts and three-judge courts of first instance, three-judge courts of appeal, and one court of cassation .

Religious courts have jurisdiction over personal matters such as marriages, deaths, and inheritances .

Health and Welfare

During the late 1960s and early 1970s a comprehensive social security code was introduced, under which the bulk of the payments were to be made by employers and the government. It provided for sickness, accident, and disability insurance, maternity pay, extra allowances for large families, and severance pay. In the mid-1980s Lebanon had some 3500 physicians and 160 hospitals and health centers .

History

The mountains that have given Lebanon its name -sometimes referred to as Mount Lebanon, or the Mountain- have also shaped its history. The inaccessibility of its highlands has not only provided a refuge for dissident religious groups over the centuries, but has also hampered unity among the region's distinctive populations .

Phoenicians

Phoenicia, ancient designation of a narrow strip of territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, now largely in modern Lebanon. The territory, about 320 km (about 200 mi.) long and from 8 to 25 km (5 to 15 mi.) wide, was bounded on the east by the Lebanon Mountains. The southern boundary was Mount Carmel; the northern boundary was generally accepted to be the Eleutherus River, now called the Kebir, which forms the northern boundary of Lebanon.

Although its inhabitants had a homogeneous civilization and considered themselves a single nation, Phoenicia was not a unified state but a group of city-kingdoms, one of which usually dominated the others. The most important of these cities were Simyra, Zarephath (Sarafand), Byblos, Jubeil, Arwad (Rouad), Acco (Acre), Sidon (Sayda), Tripolis (Tripoli), Tyre (Sur), and Berytus (Bayrut). The two most dominant were Tyre and Sidon, which alternated as sites of the ruling power.

The Phoenicians, called Sidonians in the Old Testament and Phoenicians by the Greek poet Homer, were Semites, related to the Canaanites . Historical research indicates that they founded their first settlements on the Mediterranean coast about 2500 BC. Early in their history, they developed under the influence of the Sumerian and Akkadian cultures of nearby Babylon. About 1800 BC Egypt, which was then beginning to acquire an empire in the Middle East, invaded and took control of Phoenicia, holding it until about 1400 BC. The raids of the Hittites against Egyptian territory gave the Phoenician cities an opportunity to revolt, and by 1100 BC they were independent of Egypt.

With self-rule, the Phoenicians became the most notable traders and sailors of the ancient world. The fleets of the coast cities traveled throughout the Mediterranean and even into the Atlantic Ocean, and other nations competed to employ Phoenician ships and crews in their navies. In connection with their maritime trade the city-kingdoms founded many colonies, notably Utica and Carthage in north Africa, on the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea, and Tarshish in southern Spain. Tyre was the leader of the Phoenician cities before they were subjugated, once again, by Assyria during the 8th century BC. When Assyria fell during the late 7th century BC, Phoenicia, except for Tyre, which succeeded in maintaining its independence until about 538 BC, was incorporated into the Chaldean Empire of Nebuchadnezzar II and, in 539 BC, became part of the Persian Empire. Under Persian rule Sidon became the leading city of Phoenicia.

When Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Asia and defeated Persia in 333 BC, Sidon, Arwad, and Byblos capitulated to Macedonia. Tyre again refused to submit, and it took Alexander a 7-month siege in 332 BC to capture the city. After this defeat the Phoenician cities were absorbed into the Greco-Macedonian empire. The cities became Hellenized .

The most important Phoenician contribution to civilization was the alphabet. Purple dye, called Tyrian purple, and the invention of glass, are also ascribed to the Phoenicians. Their industries, particularly the manufacture of textiles and dyes, metalworking, and glassmaking, were notable in the ancient world, and Phoenician cities were famous for their pantheistic religion. Each city ha

Answer 7

welll i am Lebanese who lives in lebanon

Lebanon is a great country in which you can have a biiiiiiig personnal freedom with a great night life

a great nature

come and I am sure u'll enjoy your visit

N.B: this summer will be the best ever

Answer 8

I only know the Lebanon of the 1970's, but I remember walking on the corniche. If you looked down, you could see schools of baby fish hatched in the shallow rocks. Going up to the mountains from Beirut, and passing the clouds on your way up. The smell of the pine trees, and the taste of the natural spring water.The way the farm valley in baalbak looked like a Persian carpet as you drove down from the mountains. The blinding reflection off of the snow at the ski slopes...The way the sky was a perfect shade of turquoise, and the sunlight was so bright...I miss it very much, but I know this Lebanon only lives in my memories.