Side by side
Lebanon and Syria compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
1 September 1920 — General Gouraud proclaims the State of Greater Lebanon
- Shared indicators
- 40
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- 9
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- 4
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- 2026-08-10
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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.
- 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 · History of Lebanon
- 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 · Bashir Shihab II, History of Lebanon
- 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 · Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon: The National Pact (Lebanon: A Country Study)
- 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 · Rafiq al-Hariri, Assassination of Rafik Hariri (2005), Lebanon: Lebanon's Second Republic since 1990