** lebanon Lebanese ethnicity







Lebanese Ethnicity



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Lebanon is an Arab country. An estimated 95 percent of the Lebanese population is Arab which includes the Druze. The remainder is Armenian (4 percent) and the rest a variety of different groups. There are, however, no precise data. The Lebanese Government does not collect census data on ethnic background of its people because of the political sensitivities. The actual ethnic/demographic makeup is thus unknown to any level of certainty. The French Mandate government conducted the kast census (1932). Arab is commonly used to denote ethnicity in the Middle East, but it is in reality a cultural concept, the various people conuered by invading Arab armies during the medieval era. Thus the ethnicity of Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa varies from country to country. The Arabs fired by Islan conquered the Levant from the Byzantine Empire (7th century AD). The ethnicity of the peope they conquered was a mixture of both indigenous and foreign elements. The foreign elements included both conquerors and traders. The Levant was surrounded by powerful empires that in the orocess of invasion and rule left their imprint on Lebnon. The Phoenicians were a trading people who conducted commerce throughout the MedirMediterranean and beyond. This also left its ethnic imprint on Lebanon. The bitter fighting during the Civil War (1970-82) has caused many Christians in Lebanon to reassess the term Arab. More Christians now reject the term Arab as to associated with Islam and prefer to descibe their etnicity as Phoenicians, descendents of ancient Canaanites. ctually this is also the actual thnicity of most Muslim Lebanese. Christians throughout the Arab world are under asault by Muslim fundamentalists. Lebanon has the highest percentage of Christians of all the different Arab countries.







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