Lebanon ( Arabic : لبنان Lubnān), officially the Lebanese Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية اللبنانية ), is a small, largely mountainous country in the Middle East , located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea . Due to its...
Lebanon Located in the Middle East, Lebanon is a small country with an area of 10,452 square kilometers (4,035 square miles). Beirut is the capital city. Syria borders it to the north and the east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the...
Republic of Lebanon Al-Jumhuriyah al-Lubnaniyah CAPITAL: Beirut (Bayrut) FLAG: The national flag, introduced in 1943, consists of two horizontal red stripes separated by a white stripe which is twice as wide; at the center, in green and brown, is a...
Lebanon POPULATION 3,677,780 SHIITE MUSLIM 41 percent SUNNI MUSLIM 27 percent MARONITE 16 percent DRUZE 7 percent GREEK ORTHODOX 5 percent GREEK CATHOLIC 3 percent OTHER 1 percent Country Overview Introduction The Lebanese Republic, located on the...
Lebanon (IPA: /ˈlɛbənɒn/) (Arabic: لبنان Lubnān; French: Liban), officially the Republic of Lebanon[2] or Lebanese Republic[3] (الجمهورية اللبنانية), La République Libanaise , is a small, mostly mountainous country in the...
Maybe it's asking too much but Lebanon head coach Bill Giovino will ask anyway. Like all coaches, Giovino wants his team recognized for its accomplishments, like the fact that the Cedars are working on a fourth straight winning season, something that hasn't happened in...
MARJAYOUN, Lebanon There are not too many addresses in Lebanon, in the precise, ZIP Code sense of the United States; they tend to be anecdotal, albeit spoken with authority. Such were the directions to Jdeidet, Marjayoun, a small Christian village tucked in a...
Area: 10,400 sq km (4,016 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 3,834,000 (excluding unnaturalized Palestinian refugees estimated to number about 400,000)Capital: Beirut Chief of state: President Gen. Émile Lahoud Head of government: Prime Minister Fouad Siniora Lebanon started 2006 with political bickering between the majority Future...
Mideast: A U.N. complicit in the violence that afflicts Lebanon got one right by approving a tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of its former prime minister. It gives the beleaguered democracy hope.As the Lebanese Army continued to battle the terrorist group Fatah al-Islam,...
