Lebanon possesses one AM radio broadcast station, and 32 FM radio broadcast stations.

Bterram, a village in Lebanon, possesses a very old underground temple called Eshmunit, comprising eight rooms ( one large and seven small ), carved into the bedrock and accessible by stairs.

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.

There are 28 television broadcast stations in Lebanon, although the application of the Audiovisual law has caused the closure of a number of TV stations.

A number of smaller radical Arab groups from Lebanon, Tunisia, Sudan, Iraq, the Persian Gulf states, and Jordan were represented at the inaugural meeting.

Phoenician inscriptions have been found in archaeological sites at a number of former Phoenician cities and colonies around the Mediterranean, such as Byblos ( in present-day Lebanon ) and Carthage in North Africa.

Its role in Lebanon after Syria left the country in 2005 ( see Cedar Revolution ) is uncertain, and it has been involved in a number of clashes with Lebanese security forces.

Today, there are three incorporated municipalities in Montezuma County: Cortez, Dolores, and Mancos, and a large number of unincorporated communities, including Towaoc, Lewis, Arriola, Mesa Verde, Lebanon, Stoner, Weber, and Battle Rock.

The Israelis successfully used a number of 175 mm M107 guns in the counter-battery role against its Soviet counterpart, the 130 mm towed field gun M1954 ( M-46 ), but the introduction of long range rockets fired from Lebanon outranged them.

Otago's early waves of settlement, especially during and immediately after the gold rush of the 1860s, included a substantial minority of southern ( Guangdong ) Chinese settlers, and a smaller but also prominent number of people from Lebanon.

They are still notable for their collection of trees ( specimens include a holm oak, silver pendent lime, tulip tree, golden yew, purple beech, cedar of Lebanon, ginkgo, giant redwood, tree of heaven, incense cedar, Corsican pine, magnolia and a rare Chinese gutta-percha ) and they still contain a number of vestigial curiosities from the past ( notably an 18th-century ‘ cowshed ’ set into the remnants of the Royalist earthworks of 1642, and a sculpture of Warden Bowra ).

* Neil Armstrong-first man on the moon ; made his home in Lebanon for a number of years after the moon landing

Dalida collected 19 number one hit singles to her name in four languages ( French, Italian, German, and Arabic ) and has a long list of top 10, and top 20 hits in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Arabic, and accumulated myriad top selling singles and albums largely, in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Canada, Russia, Japan, and Israel, spanning over forty years.

For the time being, Japan has deployed the Jieitai to aid in a number of non-combat missions, especially those involving humanitarian aid, such as aiding the victims of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, providing administrative support to the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) Norwegian Battalion ( NORBATT ) in the 1990s, and helping rebuild Iraq.

The southern border was with Lebanon, the northern border with the Sanjak of Alexandretta where Alawites made up a large number of the population.

West Lebanon also hosts the Lebanon Municipal Airport, a number of small software and tech businesses, and a regional daily newspaper, the Valley News.

Demand was particularly high on these routes in 1976, especially following the repeated closures of the Beirut International Airport, and the increasing number of passengers using Damascus International Airport for travel to and from neighboring and war-stricken Lebanon.

Christians formed the majority of the population of Mount Lebanon, with a significant number of Druze.

New groups were formed in a number of countries for the first time as in Austria, Pakistan, Botswana, Lebanon, Uruguay, Finland, Sweden and Ghana.

The total number of registered refugees in Lebanon is about 422, 000.

They demanded the departure of all Americans from Lebanon and took responsibility for a number of kidnappings and bombings which killed several hundred people.

The underground music scene became vibrant in Lebanon after the end of the civil war in 1990, spearheaded by singer / songwriter Tania Saleh and the rock-pop duo Soap Kills, but expanding to include a number of groups from a wide array of genres.

The university is ranked as the number one university in Lebanon and among the top 250 universities in the world by the QS World University Rankings.

The vehicles went through a number of both major and minor modifications culminating in the Sho't with blazer package seen in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and retired with honour during the 1990s.

*: A large number of Sisu XA-180 vehicles is used by UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon.

The physical geography of Lebanon is influenced by natural systems that extend outside the country.

This article concerns the systems of communication in Lebanon.

Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The civil war of 1860 cost the Christians some ten thousand lives in Damascus, Zahlé, Deir al-Qamar, Hasbaya, and other towns of Lebanon.

In some Mediterranean countries, especially in Lebanon, chicken eggs are boiled and decorated by dye and / or painting and used as decoration around the house.

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.

) On the other hand, homosexuality, while not legal, is tolerated to some extent in Lebanon.

Although some Jordanians highlight cross-border tribal and family connections with Iraqi Sunni Arabs, they pale in comparison to those of the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria.

The Syrian military and intelligence presence in Lebanon was criticised by some on Lebanon's right-wing inside and outside of the country, others believed it helped to prevent renewed civil war and discourage Israeli aggression, and others believed its presence and influence was helpful for Lebanese stability and peace but should be scaled back.

This includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Australia 4, Austria 6, Bangladesh 1, Belgium 3, Bulgaria 19, Canada 2, China 16, Croatia 14, Cuba 1, Cyprus 7, Denmark 3, Estonia 5, Finland 1, Germany 54, Greece 627, Hong Kong 12, Iceland 3, India 10, Iran 2, Israel 26, Italy 36, Japan 2, Latvia 24, Lebanon 6, Monaco 29, Netherlands 10, Nigeria 2, Norway 43, Poland 29, Portugal 2, Romania 15, Russia 85, Saudi Arabia 1, Slovenia 2, South Korea 5, Spain 1, Switzerland 54, Syria 4, Turkey 84, Ukraine 25, United Arab Emirates 3, United Kingdom 4, United States 10 ( 2002 est.

In March, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War prompted the move of some of scrolls to Beirut, Lebanon, for safekeeping.

Lebanon is the name of some places in the U. S. state of Wisconsin:

Despite the family's mainly Jerusalem ancestry, some members of the family were from Beirut, in what is today Lebanon.

After some decades, many of them started to migrate to other parts of Rio Grande do Sul, including Porto Alegre. Minority communities of immigrants, such as Central Europeans from Poland and Eastern Europeans from Ukraine ; Arabs from Palestine, Lebanon and Syria ; Asians from Japan and Jews also made Porto Alegre their home.

Documents from the 1920s and 1930s indicate that some local inhabitants regarded themselves as part of Lebanon, but after the French mandate ended in 1946, the land was administered by Syria, and represented as such in all maps of the time, including 1949 Armistice Agreement maps and Syrian and Lebanese military maps.

Documents from the 1920s and 1930s indicate that some local inhabitants regarded themselves as part of Lebanon, for example paying taxes to the Lebanese government.

About a month later, Beckett came under fire for not responding quickly enough to the 2006 Lebanon war, which saw Israel invade the country, although some reports suggested that the delay was caused by Cabinet division rather than Mrs Beckett's reluctance to make a public statement on the matter.

" While some of the former inhabitants of Iqrit became refugees in Lebanon, most are now internally displaced Palestinians who are also citizens of Israel.

Within a period of ten years, cedars of Lebanon, North Africa and the Himalayas were planted, along with firs and spruces from Spain, cypresses from California and Mexico, various species of pine from Asia and America, to which some exotic specimens, such as the giant sequoia and the ginkgo biloba, were added.

It continued to be paid by the government, and was fully re-integrated into the " legal " army in 1978, with the exception of some units which chose instead to form the South Lebanon Army listed below.

Nasrallah also came under intense criticism from some in Lebanon.

Most of them come from Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, China, Vietnam, Iran, Romania, Turkey and Russia, India but some also from Canada, Cuba, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States.

Arabism and regional patriotism ( such as in Egypt or in the Levant ) mixed and gained predominance over Ottomanism among some Arabs in Syria and Lebanon.

Examples of driving license restrictions are Croatia, Dominican Republic, Israel, United Kingdom, Brazil, some states in Australia, France, Portugal, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Austria, Norway, Hungary, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Mauritius, South Korea, Romania, Singapore, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, India, Estonia, Finland, Saudi Arabia ( in March 2012 ), Switzerland, Slovenia, Republic of Ireland and New Zealand ( restricted licence only ), Russian Federation ( Russia ).