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Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · LBN LEFT · SYR RIGHT

1. 1516

   Ottoman conquest of Syria

   The Ottomans defeat the Mamluks and take Syria and Lebanon, but leave Mount Lebanon largely to local emirs, allowing a semi-autonomous emirate to develop.

   Politics & Power · from the Lebanon chronicle · The Emirate of Mount Lebanon · REFS 1 — History of Lebanon

2. 1840

   Fall of Bashir Shihab II

   After siding with Egypt's Ibrahim Pasha, the long-ruling emir Bashir Shihab II is deposed and exiled when Egyptian rule in Syria collapses, ending the autonomous emirate.

   Politics & Power · from the Lebanon chronicle · The Emirate of Mount Lebanon · REFS 2 — Bashir Shihab II, History of Lebanon

3. 13 April 1975

   The Lebanese Civil War

   Fighting erupts in Beirut and escalates into a fifteen-year civil war that draws in Syria, Israel and many militias; deaths are estimated, very approximately, in the range of 120,000–150,000.

   War & Rupture · from the Lebanon chronicle · Civil War, Foreign Intervention and Collapse · REFS 2 — Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon: The National Pact (Lebanon: A Country Study)

4. 14 February 2005

   Hariri assassination and the Cedar Revolution

   A car bomb kills former prime minister Rafic Hariri and others; mass protests known as the Cedar Revolution lead Syria to withdraw its forces after nearly thirty years.

   Politics & Power · from the Lebanon chronicle · Civil War, Foreign Intervention and Collapse · REFS 3 — Rafiq al-Hariri, Iraq and World Order: A Lebanese Perspective, Lebanon: Lebanon's Second Republic since 1990