Information about Lebanon

From the web site {http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary-spring06/eyeon/index.html}which we searched on, it gave some information about Lebanon such as geographical location, countries which surround Lebanon, population and other historical information.

First of all let me tell you about the history of social issue, Lebanon
was known as the land of milk and honey which is mentioned 76 times in the Bible. The capital of Lebanon is Beirut in addition it has another name “Paris of the East” in this name the imitate the capital of France, Paris. Lebanon is located in Asia and it has borders with five countries which are Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Israel and Cyprus.

Lebanon nowadays:

Lebanon was colonized by France for several years and it became independent in 1943. Lebanon has a diversity of community groups Christians, Muslims and other people from other religions. In 1975 the Christian groups attacked and killed Muslims people in a bus. From that time, they started fighting and killing each other. In addition the tensions reached their peak, so both groups Muslims and Christians were separated in Beirut city in two parts, West and East respectively. Moreover, in 1982 Israel attacked Beirut and most of the buildings were demolished. After 7 years Lebanon reached a peace. In fact this war cost Lebanon government a lot and their economy was paralyzed. Finally, Lebanon is inside a big gap of damaging and most of Lebanese are travel outside their country searching for job and a good life. All in all, Lebanon is one of the wonderful countries all over the world. It has a wealth of natural resources, political people should help Lebanon to be more safe.