lebanon- story behind history

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LebanonHend Darwish

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Where Lebanon is located

Lebanon is a smallmountainous countryon the Mediterraneancoast . It is locatedin the Middle Eastborderin! theMediterranean Seabetween Syria andIsrael. Its!eo!raphic co"ordinates are ## $% &

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'eo!raphic (eatures o) Lebanon

*here are many popular ri+er andstreams in Lebanon.

, *he -eaa /alley is watered bytwo ri+ers that rise near-aalbeck and the Litani )lowin!south into the hill re!ion o)the southern -eaa /alleywhere it makes a uick turn tothe west and is a)terward

called the Al 0asmiyah 1i+er.*he only permanent lake is-uhayrat al 0irawn about tenkilometers east o) 2a33ine.

, Another ma4or )eature o)Lebanese !eo!raphy is thealternation o) low lands andhi!h lands that run parallel

with a north"to"southdirection. *here are )ourstrips runnin! len!thwisebetween the Mediterranean Seaand Syria5 the coastal stripwestern Lebanon the centralplateau and eastern Lebanon.

*opo!raphy o)Lebanon


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Why are 6hysical (eaturesimportant7,

-eaa /alley is a )ertile +alley in east Lebanon. It isLebanons most important )armin! re!ion and a ma4or Shiapopulation center in Lebanon. *he +alley is importantbecause it makes up 9% percent o) Lebanon:s arable land.*he northern end o) the +alley with its li!ht rain)alland less )ertile soils is used as croppin! land by ruralnomads but mostly mi!rants )rom the Syrian Desert.

(arther south more )ertile soils support crops such aswheat corn cotton and +e!etables with +ineyards andorchards centered around ;ahle. Also because the -eaa/alley has such a bi! history it has become e


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=limate o) Lebanon

, Lebanon has a Mediterranean

climate characteri3ed by a lon!hot and dry summer and coolrainy winter. (all is atransitional season with a!radual lowerin! o) temperatureand little rain> sprin! occurswhen the winter rains cause the+e!etation to re+i+e.*opo!raphical di))erence createsnarrow ad4ustments o) the basic

climatic pattern. Alon! thecoast summers are hot and humidwith little or no rain. Hea+ydews )orm which are bene)icialto a!riculture. *he daily ran!eo) temperature is not widealthou!h temperatures may reachabo+e #8? = in the daytime andbelow @? = at ni!ht. Winter isthe rainy season with ma4or rain

)allin! a)ter December. *heamount o) rain)all +aries !reatly)rom one year to another.Bccasionally there are )rostsdurin! the winter and about oncee+ery )i)teen years a li!htpowderin! o) snow )alls as )arSouth o) -eirut.


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En+ironment o) Lebanon

Plants:

, Lebanon was hea+ily )orested inancient and medie+al times and itstimber was e ea!les bu33ardskites )alcons and hawks inhabitthe mountains> and owlskin!)ishers cuckoos andwoodpeckers are common.

A (ir *ree inLebanon


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History o) LebanonDiscovery ofByblos

FrenchMandate Independence

Arab-IsraeliWar Lebanese Civil War Rafiq Hariri

Deonst-rations

Lebanon-IsraelWar

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Archaeologists havediscovered inByblos,which isconsidered to

be the oldest

continuously-inhabitedcity in theworld.

Lebanonwas parto) theBttomanEmpire )oro+er 9%%years in

a re!ionknown as'reaterSyriauntil @C@8when theareabecame apart o)

the (renchMandate o)Syria)ollowin!World WarI.

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