Several other countries created spin-offs based on the American Gladiators concept, including Finland, the UK, Australia, Germany, South Africa, Lebanon and more.

The concept of Un gars, une fille was also bought in Belgium, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Latvia, Lebanon, Mexico, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and many others, totalling more than thirty exportations.

Lebanese historian Kamal Salibi gives a somewhat contrasting interpretation, pointing to the position of the Greek Orthodox community as a large minority in both Syria and Lebanon for whom " the concept of pan-Syrianism was more meaningful than the concept of Arabism " while at the same time they resented Maronite dominance in Lebanon.

Lebanon gained independence in 1943, and established a unique political system, known as confessionalism, a power-sharing mechanism based on religious communities – Bechara El Khoury who became independent Lebanon's first President and Riad El-Solh, who became Lebanon's first prime minister, are considered the founders of the modern Republic of Lebanon and are national heroes for having led the country's independence.

Lebanon is a parliamentary democratic republic within the overall framework of confessionalism, a form of consociationalism in which the highest offices are proportionately reserved for representatives from certain religious communities.

When consociationalism is organised along religious confessional lines, it is known as confessionalism, as is the case in Lebanon.

It holds 14 of the 128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon and is a member of the Resistance and Development Bloc.

Each year on the last weekend of September the town holds the West Lebanon Patriot Festival, an event named for the Patriot mascot of nearby Seeger High School.

It holds offshore a string of four small islands, the only surviving islands of Lebanon.

The former view holds that what a modernizer sees as a setback to the theory ( events such as the Iranian Revolution or the troubles in Lebanon ) are invariably temporary setbacks, with the ability to attain " modernism " still existing.

The Warren County ( Ohio ) Historical Society in Lebanon, Ohio, now holds Lebanon University's records.

Similar holds true to much smaller degrees in Middle Eastern-Italian communities, namely those of Egypt and Lebanon, as well as South American-Italian diasporas in Argentina and Brazil.

It holds minority shares in Portugal, Austria, Thailand, Egypt, Poland and Lebanon.

He holds honorary degrees from Lebanon Valley College, Gettysburg College, Susquehanna University, and Gannon University.

Nonetheless, they constitute an important minority whose naturalization / settlement in Lebanon is vigorously opposed by most Lebanese, who see them as a threat to Lebanon's delicate confessional balance.

Part of this attempt was reportedly influenced by ecumenical efforts in Syria and Lebanon, where the Greek-Melkite Church has played an important role in improving ties with the Orthodox.

Syria plays an important role in Lebanon by virtue of its history, size, power, and economy.

* 1266 – Baibars expands his domain, capturing the city of Byblos ( in present-day Lebanon ) and the important castle of Toron from crusader states, and defeating the Armenians at Cilicia.

* The Mamluk sultan Baibars expands his domain, capturing the city of Byblos ( in present-day Lebanon ) and the important castle of Toron from the crusader states, and defeating the Armenians at Cilicia.

The waters of the Jordan River are an important resource to the dry lands in the area and are a source of conflict among Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinians which began with 1951 Syrian border clashes.

Cyprus is the second most important country for the Maronite people worldwide after Lebanon.

To avoid confusion in historical contexts, it is important to note that prior to the establishment of the city now known as Lebanon, the nearby town of Georgetown, Kentucky had also been named Lebanon during its first few years of establishment.

Consensus democracy is most closely embodied in certain countries such as Switzerland, Lebanon, Sweden, Iraq and Belgium, where consensus is an important feature of political culture, particularly with a view to preventing the domination of one linguistic or cultural group in the political process.

By 1975, the refugees numbered more than 300, 000 and the PLO in effect created an unofficial state-within-a-state, particularly in Southern Lebanon, which then played an important role in the Lebanese Civil War.

The port became even more important after 1975, due to the troubled situation in Lebanon and the loss of Beirut and Tripoli as ports.

Palestinians came to play a very important role in future Lebanese civil conflicts, whilst the establishment of Israel radically changed the local environment in which Lebanon found itself.

The Cedar of Lebanon was important to various ancient civilizations.

He believed Lebanon's Christian community had an important role to play in building a Lebanon distinct from its Islamic ambiance, but did not share the fanaticism about Lebanon's Christian nature shown by many of his Maronite colleagues.

Breasted coined the term " Fertile Crescent " to describe the archaeologically important area including parts of present-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel.

In the 19th century, it provided an important early transportation route with the building in 1828 of the Union Canal along the river, connecting from its headwaters to those of Quittapahilla Creek in Lebanon County.

Lebanon hosts annually two important regional publishing events, the Beirut Book Fair and the Beirut Francophone Book Fair.

This included its important role on the Alphabet Route, from Boston and New York to Chicago, with traffic from the Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central entering the Reading System in Allentown, traveling over the East Penn Branch to Reading, where trains then traveled west over the Lebanon Valley Branch to Harrisburg, and then onward over the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburg branch, or PH & P to Shippensburg, PA.

Once the chief medical officer to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, he later played an important role after the Fiji coup of 2000, as head of the trauma team providing counselling for the parliamentarians ( and their families ) who had been kidnapped and held hostage in the insurrection.

While this has prevented as-Sa ' iqa from gaining widespread popularity among Palestinians, it became an important force in the Palestinian camps in Syria, as well as in Lebanon.

He was one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of Lebanese Civil War ( 1975 – 1990 ), and he served as Prime Minister eight times.

The area of this governorate is 19. 8 km² ( without suburbs ); despite its small size, it is considered the most important region in Lebanon because of its economical, political, cultural, and social activity.

If the anticipated attack came through Turkey or Lebanon, then not only could the Axis Powers threaten British controlled Egypt and the strategically important Suez Canal via an advance through Palestine and the Sinai Peninsula, it would also allow the Germans an alternative route to attack the Soviet Union from Southwest Asia north through the USSR's southern frontiers.

The autonomy achieved by the governors of Mount Lebanon played an important role in forming the political views of Daher el-Omar.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

In 1618 political changes in the Ottoman sultanate had resulted in the removal of many enemies of Fakhr-al-Din from power, signaling the prince's triumphant return to Lebanon soon afterwards.

Druzes and Christians grouped in political rather than religious parties so the party lines in Lebanon obliterated racial and religious lines and the people grouped themselves regardless of their religious affiliations, into one or the other of these two parties.

* Haghshenas, Seyyed Ali, " social and political structure of Lebanon and its influence on appearance of Amal Movement, " Iran, Tehran. 2009

As the German defeat drew nearer, the various Greek political factions convened in Lebanon in May 1944, under British auspices, and formed a government of national unity, under George Papandreou, in which EAM was represented by six ministers.

Hezbollah (, literally " Party of Allah " or " Party of God ") is a Shi ' a Islamic militant group and political party based in Lebanon.

Hezbollah regards cultural, political, and religious freedoms in Lebanon as sanctified, although it does not extend these values to groups who have relations with Israel.

Structurally, Hezbollah does not distinguish between its political / social activities within Lebanon and its military / jihad activities against Israel.

Hezbollah alongside with Amal is one of two major political parties in Lebanon that represent the Shiite Muslims.

According to Daniel L. Byman, it's " the most powerful single political movement in Lebanon.

Between 1982 and 1986, there were 36 suicide attacks in Lebanon directed against American, French and Israelis forces by 41 individuals with predominantly leftist political beliefs and of both major religions, killing 659.

The Druze had grown increasingly resentful of the favoring of the Maronites by Bashir II, and were backed by the Ottoman Empire and the wali of Damascus in an attempt to gain greater control over Lebanon ; the Maronites were backed by the French, out of both economic and political expediency.

Under various political pressures from both inside and outside Lebanon, de Gaulle decided to recognize the independence of Lebanon.

If Lebanon has in part recovered over the past decade from the catastrophic damage to infrastructure of its long civil war, the social and political divisions that gave rise to and sustained that conflict remain largely unresolved.

Lebanon was also affected by regional political conflicts and social movements.

The 1943 National Pact, an unwritten agreement that established the political foundations of modern Lebanon, allocated political power on an essentially confessional system based on the 1932 census.

The Jews of Egypt and Libya were forcibly expelled while those of Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and North Africa left as a result of a hostile atmosphere ( including pogroms and public executions ) and growing political insecurity.

" The term has also been used to describe the relationship between Lebanon and Syria, as Syria has been accused of intervening in Lebanese political affairs.

In 2011, the party became the first political party in Lebanon to elect a female leader when Nada Zaarour was elected its president

Syria provided political and weapons support to Hizballah in Lebanon and allowed Iran to resupply the terrorist organization with weapons.

* Arab Democratic Party ( Lebanon ), a political party in Lebanon