The 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus, also known as the 1860 Christian–Druze war, was a civil conflict in Mount Lebanon during Ottoman rule in 1860–1861 fought mainly between the loca
The ruins of the Christian quarter of Damascus in 1860
Christian Church and Druze Khalwa in the Chouf area of Mount Lebanon. Historically, the Druze and the Christians in the Chouf lived in harmony.
Christian militiamen of Mount Lebanon
An 1857 sketch of Hasbaya, one of the main towns of the Wadi al-Taym valley and home of a branch of the Shihab dynasty
Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate
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The Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate was one of the Ottoman Empire's subdivisions following the 19th-century Tanzimat reform. After 1861, there existed an autonomous Mount Lebanon with a Christian Mutasarr
1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus
…The 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus, also known as the 1860 Christian–Druze war, was a civil conflict in Mount Lebanon during Ottoman rule in 1860–1861 fought mainly between the local Druze and Christians. Following decisive Druze victories and massacres of the Christians…
Painting of the Emir of Mount Lebanon Bashir II
Muhammad Ali Pasha and Bashir II
Emir of Lebanon, by József Borsos, 1843
Omar Pasha – Lithograph