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.

This is, however, very much a minority position-in Lebanon itself as in the Arab World as a whole.

The Ma ' ans chose for their abode the Chouf District in south-western Lebanon ( southern Mount Lebanon Governorate ), overlooking the maritime plain between Beirut and Sidon, and made their headquarters in Baaqlin, which is still a leading Druze village.

It is also practiced in Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Lebanon, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, and other countries.

The first two regular battalions of the Fiji Infantry Regiment are traditionally stationed overseas on peacekeeping duties ; the 1st Battalion has been posted to Lebanon, Iraq, and East Timor under the command of the UN, while the 2nd Battalion is stationed in Sinai with the MFO.

The Ja ' fari school ( Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Bahrain, India and Saudi Arabia ) is associated with Imam Jafar-as-Sadiq.

His head is believed to be now in Armenia, his left hand at Echmiadzin, and his right at the Holy See of Cilicia in Antelias, Lebanon.

Presently the largest operation the German Navy is participating in is UNIFIL II off the coast of Lebanon.

The Eden in Ezekiel, however, is unequivocally located in Lebanon.

" t appears that the Lebanon is an alternative placement in Phoenician myth ( as in Ez 28, 13, III. 48 ) of the Garden of Eden ", and there are connections between paradise, the garden of Eden and the forests of Lebanon ( possibly used symbolically ) within prophetic writings.

The term is also sometimes used to refer to modern events or states in the region immediately bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea: Israel, Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

East of the plain and the Shephelah is a mountainous ridge, the " hill country of Judah " in the south, the " hill country of Ephraim " north of that, then Galilee and the Lebanon mountains.

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

Hezbollah says that its continued hostilities against Israel are justified as reciprocal to Israeli operations against Lebanon and as retaliation for what they claim is Israel's occupation of Lebanese territory.

One of its established institutions, Jihad Al Binna's Reconstruction Campaign, is responsible for numerous economic and infrastructure development projects in Lebanon.

Lebanon ’ s majority Shi ' a Islam in Lebanon | Shi ’ a areas as of July 2006, where Hezbollah is most prominent.

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

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

As of July 2012, " Hezbollah is ... reported to have up to 50, 000 missiles — more than three times the 13, 000 it reportedly held when it began launching rockets at Israel six years ago, leading to the Second Lebanon War.

According to Michel Samaha, Lebanon ’ s minister of information, Hezbollah is seen as a legitimate resistance organization that has defended its land against an Israeli occupying force and has consistently stood up to the Israeli army.

Even Lebanon in the distant North is spoken of with a minuteness of detail which could be expected only from one very familiar with Northern Palestine ( Hosea 14: 5-8 ).

More dramatically, in July 1958, he sent 15, 000 Marines and soldiers to Lebanon as part of Operation Blue Bat, a non-combat peace-keeping mission to stabilize the pro-Western government and to prevent a radical revolution from sweeping over that country.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dennett spent part of his childhood in Lebanon, where, during World War II, his father was a covert counter-intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut.

The northernmost part of the Rift, today called the Dead Sea Transform or Rift, forms the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon separating the Lebanon Mountains and Anti-Lebanon Mountains.

Soon after, the Nile River valley of ancient Egypt was unified under the Pharaohs in the 4th millennium BC, and civilization quickly spread through the Fertile Crescent to the east coast of the sea and throughout the Levant, which happens to make the Mediterranean countries of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel part of the cradle of civilization.

A July 2006 USA Today / Gallup poll found that 83 % of the 1, 005 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 66 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

In the final consequences of the Jewish-Roman Wars, the region of modern Lebanon became part of Syria-Palaestina since 135.

Mount Lebanon and its coastal plane became part of the Diocese of the East, divided to provinces of Phoenice and Phoenice Lebanensis ( which also extended over large parts of Syria ).

Later, Frankish nobles occupied present-day Lebanon as part of the southeastern Crusader States.

For its part, the PLO used its new privileges to establish an effective " mini-state " in southern Lebanon, and to ramp up its attacks on settlements in northern Israel.

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.

Also, Lebanon is part of Southwestern Asia, and it is located at about approximately 35 ˚ N, 35 ˚ W.

The majority of the Lebanese Armed Forces remained a part of the French Army in Lebanon.

* 1982 Lebanon War ( part of the Lebanese Civil War, also known as the First Lebanon War )

* Mountain War ( Lebanon ) 1983-1984 ( part of the Lebanese Civil War )

* In Lebanon, a municipality is part of a district () which is part of a Governorate ( Region or Province, Arabic: Mouhafazah ).

Eretz Yisrael also includes part of Lebanon and certain parts of Syria, and part of Iraq, all the way to the Tigris River.

The assassins were subsequently reported to be part of the Palestinian fedayeen from refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.

During the second millennium BCE, Syria was occupied successively by Canaanites, Phoenicians, and Arameans as part of the general disruptions associated with the Sea Peoples ; the Phoenicians settled along the coastline of these area as well as in the west ( Now Lebanon & The current Syrian coast ), in the area already known for its cedars.

Eventually the Syrians brought most of the nation under their control, as part of a power-struggle with Israel, which occupied areas of southern Lebanon in 1978.