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لبناني بالانجليزي بيروت بالانجليزي لبناني للكبار فقط لبنان الوجهات
عاصمة لبنان بيروت تعرف رسمياً بالجمهورية اللبنانية نبذة عن لبنان
تعبير عن دولة لبنان بالانجليزي موضوع عن لبنان وجماله معلومات
عن لبنان
لبنان دولة اسلامية مسيحية موقع لبنان الجغرافي مساحة لبنان وعدد سكانها موضوع
تعبير عن لبنان بالانجليزي الديانة الرسمية في لبنان لبنان نقاط الاهتمام موضوع تعبير عن لبنان بالانجليزي
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بيروت بالانجليزي لبنان نقاط الاهتمام
Presentation of the country
Overview
Lebanon - Statistical indicators (The State of the World 1997, La
Découverte edition)
Area: 10400 km²
Language: Lebanese Arabic, French, English (summit of the
Francophonie in Beirut in 2002)
Capital: Beirut
Currency: Lebanese pound (100 pounds = 0.75 € at 01.01.2002)
Nature of the scheme: parliamentary democracy
Head of State: Emile LAHOUD
Prime Minister: Rafiq HARIRI, since 30.10.92 with a break of a few
months in 99
Demography
Population: 3.1 million (1996 figures, last census in 1970)
Density: 289.3 inhabitants per km² (1995)
Annual population growth rate: 3.3% (1990-1995)
Fertility rate: 3.1 children per woman (1990-1995)
Infant mortality: 34 ‰ (1990-1995)
Life expectancy: 68.5 years (1990-1995)
Urban population: 87.2% of the total population (1995)
Children under 15: 34% of the population (1994)
People aged 65 and over: 5% of the population (1994)
Illiteracy: 7.6% of over-15s (1995)
Economy
GDP per capita: $ 2,500 (1993)
Annual economic growth: 9% (1995)
Total foreign debt: $ 1.9 billion (1994)
Inflation rate: 6% (1995)
Trade
Imports: $ 7.39 billion (1995)
Exports: $ 0.98 billion (1995)
History
6,000 years of history!
The history of Lebanon begins around the fourth millennium with the
arrival of the Canaanites, ancestors of the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians
settled on the coast and founded ports that became the cities known today.
Sailors and traders, they establish many relations with their neighbors. They
become "the brokers of the peoples in the islands without number"
(Ezekiel 23,3).
Then come various Egyptian invaders, Assyrian, Babylonian or
Persian who exploit the resources of Lebanon for 1500 years.
Lebanon is therefore a land of conflict and passage.
The Roman era
The "Pax Romana" established during the conquest of these
lands by the Romans allows Phenicia to recover its prosperity. Beryt (Beirut)
is then an important center of commerce. Byblos (Ibeil) and Heliopolis
(Baalbeck are famous for their sanctuaries.
Phenicia and Syria are at that time politically attached. It is
from this "Syria Province" that the idea of "Greater Syria" comes.
At this time, Jesus and his disciples go through Lebanon.
Christianity then spreads thanks to St. Paul (tyr in 57) and thanks to the
edict of Milan (313).
Arabs
The religious quarrels, the conflicts in particular between the
Byzantine emperors and the local kings (Sassanids) exhaust the empire. In July
636, the troops of the caliph (leader of Islam) invaded the whole region to
Damascus and Byzantium. It is the reign of two great dynasties: Ommeyads and
Abbasids. The Maronite Church, founded by Saint Maron (Maroun) in the 4th
century, is very often persecuted during this period.
Lebanon
At the crossroads of East and West lies Lebanon. In a very small
area, this country seems to have brought together all the diversity of nature
and humanity.
From the sea to the snowy peaks, from the mountains to valleys
sometimes arid, sometimes green, watered by rivers and waterfalls, pine forests
that run down the hillsides to the desert expanses extended by fertile plains
where intermingle orchards and vineyards Lebanon never ceases to amaze with its
natural treasures.
Lebanon retains the imprints and memories of the many civilizations
it has witnessed: archaeological and architectural sites in abundance recall
that the cradle of some civilizations is here, and tell the roots of a people
shaped by a real cultural bubbling.
Lebanon rises proudly from its ruins after years of civil war,
between 1975 and 1990, and opens again to the traveler to reveal its many
jewels
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